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Opinion

Published on 30 May 2025

Towards a sustainable HIV response: strengthening Zimbabwe's domestic financing for HIV programs amid declining donor support

in Cost and Resource Allocation

Godfrey Musuka
Tatenda Makoni
Tafadzwa Dzinamarira

Frontiers in Health Services

doi 10.3389/frhs.2025.1558992

1,203 views

Original Research

Published on 27 May 2025

Does the fairness of healthcare resource allocation affect utilization efficiency?—an empirical study based on China's provincial panel data

in Cost and Resource Allocation

Anying Xu
Haibin Wei

Frontiers in Health Services

doi 10.3389/frhs.2025.1409421

342 views

Original Research

Accepted on 26 May 2025

Evaluating and Enhancing the Service Capacity of Secondary Public Hospitals in Urban China: A Multi-Method Empirical Analysis Based on Guangzhou (2019-2023)

in Cost and Resource Allocation

Baoling WU
Wenbo Wu
Weizhang Huang
Luo Zhenni
Jifeng Li

Frontiers in Health Services

doi 10.3389/frhs.2025.1621018

166 views

Original Research

Published on 24 Apr 2025

Characteristics, health care utilization and cost of patients hospitalized with heart failure

in Cost and Resource Allocation

Hanna Winkler
Dorothee Riedlinger
Andrea Figura
Liane Schenk
Martin Möckel
Thomas Reinhold

Frontiers in Health Services

doi 10.3389/frhs.2025.1571367

539 views

Review

Published on 09 Apr 2025

A literature review of the healthcare resource use and productivity burden of X-linked hypophosphataemia

in Cost and Resource Allocation

Rafael Pinedo-Villanueva
Muhammad K. Javaid
Angela Williams
Isabelle Whittle
Matilde Franceschini
Ben Johnson

Frontiers in Health Services

doi 10.3389/frhs.2025.1285246

1,140 views

Review

Published on 07 Feb 2025

Approaches to implementing and financing primary health care in Kenya: a case of seven counties

in Cost and Resource Allocation

Janette Karimi
Salim Hussien
Elizabeth Wangia
Mercy-Irene Kimani
Mohamud Mohamed
Melissa Wanda
Rosemarie Muganda
Rachel Ndirangu
Daniel Mwai
Mercy Wanjala

Frontiers in Health Services

doi 10.3389/frhs.2025.1298379

2,723 views

Original Research

Published on 20 Jan 2025

Economic evaluation of a strategy to shorten the time to surgery with neuraxial anaesthesia compared with usual clinical practice in patients on chronic antiplatelet therapy with a proximal femur fracture

in Cost and Resource Allocation

Claudia Erika Delgado-Espinoza
Rosa Maria Antonijoan
Ignasi Gich
Rafael Anaya
Mireia Rodriguez
Angélica Millan
Jordi Llorca
Gemma Usua
Ana Ruiz
Angela Merchán-Galvis

Frontiers in Health Services

doi 10.3389/frhs.2024.1423975

946 views

Original Research

Published on 13 Jan 2025

Ultraviolet-C-based sanitization is a cost-effective option for hospitals to manage health care-associated infection risks from high touch mobile phones

in Cost and Resource Allocation

David C. Cook
Matthew Olsen
Oystein Tronstad
John F. Fraser
Adrian Goldsworthy
Rashed Alghafri
Simon J. McKirdy
Lotti Tajouri

Frontiers in Health Services

doi 10.3389/frhs.2024.1448913

1,242 views

Policy Brief

Published on 13 Jan 2025

Enhancing healthcare cost transparency: assessing implementation challenges, criticisms, and alternative solutions

in Cost and Resource Allocation

Sonia Ali Malik

Frontiers in Health Services

doi 10.3389/frhs.2024.1379416

1,474 views

Original Research

Published on 10 Sep 2024

Can “the expanded free maternity services” enable Kenya to achieve universal health coverage by 2030: qualitative study on experiences of mothers and healthcare providers

in Cost and Resource Allocation

Stephen Okumu Ombere

Frontiers in Health Services

doi 10.3389/frhs.2024.1325247

2,373 views
1 citation

Editorial

Published on 16 Aug 2024

Editorial: Global excellence in cost and resource allocation: Africa

in Cost and Resource Allocation

Olufunke A. Alaba
Goodness Aye

Frontiers in Health Services

doi 10.3389/frhs.2024.1446644

1,049 views

Original Research

Published on 29 Apr 2024

Impact of cash transfer programs on healthcare utilization and catastrophic health expenditures in rural Zambia: a cluster randomized controlled trial

in Cost and Resource Allocation

Amani Thomas Mori
Mweetwa Mudenda
Bjarne Robberstad
Kjell Arne Johansson
Linda Kampata
Patrick Musonda
Ingvild Sandoy

Frontiers in Health Services

doi 10.3389/frhs.2024.1254195

2,302 views

Brief Research Report

Published on 28 Feb 2024

Chitogel improves long-term health economic outcomes following endoscopic sinus surgery in severe chronic rhinosinusitis patients

in Cost and Resource Allocation

Jacqueline M. Barber
George Bouras
Grace S. Robinson
Simon R. Robinson

Frontiers in Health Services

doi 10.3389/frhs.2024.1196499

1,608 views

Systematic Review

Published on 26 Feb 2024

Performance management of generalist care for hospitalised multimorbid patients—a scoping review for value-based care

in Cost and Resource Allocation

Jia En Joy Khoo
Cher Wee Lim
Yi Feng Lai

Frontiers in Health Services

doi 10.3389/frhs.2023.1147565

1,803 views
1 citation

Original Research

Published on 27 Nov 2023

Socioeconomic and demographic factors predictive of missed appointments in outpatient radiation oncology: an evaluation of access

in Cost and Resource Allocation

Allen M. Chen

Frontiers in Health Services

doi 10.3389/frhs.2023.1288329

4,153 views
5 citations

Editorial

Published on 26 Oct 2023

Editorial: Opportunity costs in health care: cost-effectiveness thresholds and beyond

in Cost and Resource Allocation

Chris Sampson
Ashley Leech
Borja Garcia-Lorenzo

Frontiers in Health Services

doi 10.3389/frhs.2023.1293592

3,179 views
1 citation