BMC Health Services Research

Latest collections open to submissions

New: Innovations in mental health services

Guest Edited by Rahul Shidhaye

New: Health and wellbeing of health workforce

Guest Edited by Jose Mira and David C. Mohr

HIV care

Guest Edited by Mbuzeleni Hlongwa, Katrina F. Ortblad, Hamid Sharifi

Advancing epidemic preparedness of health systems

Guest Edited by Yibeltal Assefa Alemu, Carl Abelardo T. Antonio, Julie Balen, Megan Schmidt-Sane

Health workforce planning

Guest Edited by
Madhan Balasubramanian, Sarah J. Hewko, Sunny C. Okoroafor

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Editor's choice

New Content Item Long COVID: Costs for the German economy and health care and pension system

New Content Item What drives patients’ acceptance of Digital Therapeutics? Establishing a new framework to measure the interplay between rational and institutional factors

New Content Item Telehealth in remote Australia: a supplementary tool or an alternative model of care replacing face-to-face consultations?

Published collections

Innovations for better health and social justice

Guest Edited by Magdalena Szaflarski

Telehealth

Guest Edited by Bassey Ebenso and Hao Xue

Resilient and responsive health systems in a changing world

Guest Edited by Jane K. O'Hara and Siri Wiig

Articles

“We must help them despite who they are…”: healthcare providers’ attitudes and perspectives on care for young gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men in Nairobi, Kenya

Authors: Samuel Waweru Mwaniki, Peter Mwenda Kaberia, Peter Mwangi Mugo and Thesla Palanee-Phillips

Content type: Research 3 October 2023
Evaluation of preventive care for swallowing difficulty through policy changes in Japanese long-term care insurance: analysis of a nationwide claims dataset for long-term care insurance

Authors: Hiroko Mori, Ayako Nakane, Haruka Tohara and Takeo Nakayama

Content type: Research 2 October 2023
Investigating the tendency to use COVID-19 vaccine booster dose in Iran

Authors: Mehrdad Askarian, AmirAli Rastegar Kazerooni, zahra Shayan, Parisa Karimzadeh, Mohammad Movahedi and Nahid Hatam

Content type: Research 2 October 2023
Understanding the difference, makes the difference: perceptions of Black and Minoritised ethnic occupational therapists on mentoring

Authors: Anita Atwal, Elizabeth McKay and Vimal Sriram

Content type: Research 2 October 2023
Use of routine health information systems data in developing and monitoring district and facility health plans: a scoping review

Authors: Elaine Byrne and Arthur Heywood

Content type: Research 2 October 2023

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Relationship between Organizational Culture, Leadership Behavior and Job Satisfaction

Authors: Yafang Tsai

Content type: Research article 14 May 2011
How nurses and their work environment affect patient experiences of the quality of care: a qualitative study

Authors: Renate AMM Kieft, Brigitte BJM de Brouwer, Anneke L Francke and Diana MJ Delnoij

Content type: Research article 13 June 2014
Proceedings of the 3rd IPLeiria’s International Health Congress

Authors: Catarina Cardoso Tomás, Emanuel Oliveira, D. Sousa, M. Uba-Chupel, G. Furtado, C. Rocha, A. Teixeira, P. Ferreira, Celeste Alves, Stefan Gisin, Elisabete Catarino, Nelma Carvalho, Tiago Coucelo, Luís Bonfim, Carina Silva, Débora Franco…

Content type: Meeting Abstracts 6 July 2016
Characteristics of successful changes in health care organizations: an interview study with physicians, registered nurses and assistant nurses

Authors: Per Nilsen, Ida Seing, Carin Ericsson, Sarah A. Birken and Kristina Schildmeijer

Content type: Research article 27 February 2020
PICO, PICOS and SPIDER: a comparison study of specificity and sensitivity in three search tools for qualitative systematic reviews

Authors: Abigail M Methley, Stephen Campbell, Carolyn Chew-Graham, Rosalind McNally and Sudeh Cheraghi-Sohi

Content type: Research article 21 November 2014

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Innovations for better health and social justice
Edited by: Dr. Magdalena Szaflarski
Collection published: 30th May 2022

Advancing Dementia Care
Edited by: Dr. Clarissa Giebel and Tillie Cryer
Collection published: 13 May 2020

Health Services Research for Opioid Use Disorders
Edited by: Dr. Kim Hoffman
Collection published: 31 March 2020

Management of Infectious Diseases in Health Systems and Services
Edited by: Tillie Cryer
Collection published: 19 March 2020

Aims and scope

BMC Health Services Research is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that considers articles on all aspects of health services research. The journal has a special focus on digital health, governance, health policy, health system quality and safety, healthcare delivery and access to healthcare, healthcare financing and economics, implementing reform, and the health workforce.

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