A comparative analysis of supply chain factors impacting COVID-19 vaccine security in high-income countries (HICs) and low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs).

Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic focused attention on the importance of vaccine security to national security. Demand for vaccines far exceeded supply when the first COVID-19 vaccines were released. Growing data suggest a non-perfect correlation among vaccine development, production, purchases, deliveries and vaccination rates.

PHC Progression Model: a novel mixed-methods tool for measuring primary health care system capacity.

High-performing primary health care (PHC) is essential for achieving universal health coverage. However, in many countries, PHC is weak and unable to deliver on its potential. Improvement is often limited by a lack of actionable data to inform policies and set priorities.

Primary healthcare system performance in low-income and middle-income countries: a scoping review of the evidence from 2010 to 2017.

Introduction: The 2018 Astana Declaration reaffirmed global commitment to primary healthcare (PHC) as a core strategy to achieve universal health coverage. To meet this potential, PHC in low-income and middle-income countries (LMIC) needs to be strengthened, but research is lacking and fragmented. We conducted a scoping review of the recent literature to assess the state of research on PHC in LMIC and understand where future research is most needed.

Primary Health Care as a Foundation for Strengthening Health Systems in Low- and Middle-Income Countries.

Primary health care (PHC) has been recognized as a core component of effective health systems since the early part of the twentieth century. However, despite notable progress, there remains a large gap between what individuals and communities need, and the quality and effectiveness of care delivered. The Primary Health Care Performance Initiative (PHCPI) was established by an international consortium to catalyze improvements in PHC delivery and outcomes in low- and middle-income countries through better measurement and sharing of effective models and practices.

The PATH project in eight European countries: an evaluation.

Purpose: This paper's aim is to evaluate the perceived impact and the enabling factors and barriers experienced by hospital staff participating in an international hospital performance measurement project focused on internal quality improvement.

Design/methodology/approach: Semi-structured interviews involving international hospital performance measurement project coordinators, including 140 hospitals from eight European countries (Belgium, Estonia, France, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia). Inductively analyzing the interview transcripts was carried out using the grounded theory approach.

Health system stewardship of National Health Ministries in the WHO European region: concepts, functions and assessment framework.

Objectives: To propose an operational framework for assessing the completeness and consistency of the stewardship function of national health ministries.

Methods: The authors carried out a purposive and multidisciplinary review of the literature and derived an operational framework through iterative discussions and participatory methods. The results of the literature review were compared to the authors' observations of stewardship in action and key functions were matched with case examples from Europe and North America.

Playing to our strengths in evidence and policy.

Lindstrom, MacLeod and Levy provide an interesting and challenging perspective on collaborative policy making. In this commentary, we argue that effective policy making will require playing to our strengths as policy makers and researchers, rather than the creation of new roles and vehicles. We also argue that we need greater value placed on evidence and intellectual capital across all institutions in our health system.