BACKGROUND All too often, health policy and management decisions are made without making use of or consulting with the best available research evidence, which can lead to ineffective and inefficient health systems. One of the main actors that can ensure the use of evidence to inform policymaking is researchers. The objective of this study is to explore Israeli health systems and policy research...

We develop a model of political accountability with sequential policy making. Consistent with empirical observations, equilibrium behavior by the policymaker overemphasizes the late stages of the policy-making process. The reason is that the overseer faces a political time inconsistency problem—she is tempted to revise her retention rule in the middle of the policy-making process. If the overse...

This article explores the changing nature of allocation healthcare resources during Covid-19 crisis and how it may have shaped a new role for medical professionals in law policymaking. It contrasts traditional input systemic reforms (1946, 1990 2012) with their elaboration ethical emergency guidance published by British Medical Association Royal College Physicians March–April 2020, using discou...

BACKGROUND Strong opinions for or against the use of systematic reviews to inform policymaking have been published in the medical literature. The purpose of this paper was to examine whether funding sources and author financial conflicts of interest were associated with whether an opinion article was supportive or critical of the use of systematic reviews for policymaking. We examined the natur...