BMC Health Services Research

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New: Health services for people experiencing homelessness

Guest Edited by Megan Armstrong and Cécile Vuillermoz

New: Innovations in mental health services

Guest Edited by Rachelle Ashcroft and Rahul Shidhaye

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

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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

“If you work alone on this project, you can’t reach your target”: unpacking the leader’s role in well-performing teams in a maternal and neonatal quality improvement programme in South Africa, before and during COVID-19

Authors: Willem Odendaal, Terusha Chetty, Mark Tomlinson, Ameena Goga, Yages Singh, Shuaib Kauchali, Carol Marshall and Xanthe Hunt

Content type: Research 8 December 2023
Projected impact of population aging on non-communicable disease burden and costs in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, 2020–2030

Authors: David C. Boettiger, Tracy Kuo Lin, Maram Almansour, Mariam M Hamza, Reem Alsukait, Christopher H. Herbst, Nada Altheyab, Ayman Afghani and Faisal Kattan

Content type: Research 8 December 2023
Challenges and strategies for conducting research in primary health care practice: an integrative review

Authors: Daiana Bonfim, Lorrayne Belotti, Leticia Yamawaka de Almeida, Ilana Eshriqui, Sofia Rafaela Maito Velasco, Camila Nascimento Monteiro and Adelson Guaraci Jantsch

Content type: Research 8 December 2023
Association between adequacy of antenatal care and neonatal outcomes in Rwanda: a cross-sectional study design using the Rwanda demographic and health surveys

Authors: Gérard Uwimana, Mohamed Elhoumed, Mitslal Abrha Gebremedhin, Qi Qi, Mougni Mohamed Azalati, Liang Wang and Lingxia Zeng

Content type: Research 8 December 2023
Feasibility and acceptability of the use of flash glucose monitoring encountered by Indigenous Australians with type 2 diabetes mellitus: initial experiences from a pilot study

Authors: Audrey Sing Yi Eer, Rebecca Chia Yee Ho, Tracey Hearn, Mariam Hachem, Megan Freund, Luke James Burchill, Sharon Atkinson-Briggs, Satpal Singh, Sandra Eades, Richard Charles O’Brien, John Stuart Furler, David Norman O’Neal, David Andrew Story, Jeffrey David Zajac, Sabine Braat, Alex Brown…

Content type: Research 8 December 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.