Ten health policy challenges for the next 10 years.

Journal: Health affairs scholar
Published Date: Jun 20, 2023

Abstract

Health policies and associated research initiatives are constantly evolving and changing. In recent years, there has been a dizzying increase in research on emerging topics such as the implications of changing public and private health payment models, the global impact of pandemics, novel initiatives to tackle the persistence of health inequities, broad efforts to reduce the impact of climate change, the emergence of novel technologies such as whole-genome sequencing and artificial intelligence, and the increase in consumer-directed care. This evolution demands future-thinking research to meet the needs of policymakers in translating science into policy. In this paper, the editorial team describes "ten health policy challenges for the next 10 years." Each of the ten assertions describes the challenges and steps that can be taken to address those challenges. We focus on issues that are traditionally studied by health services researchers such as cost, access, and quality, but then examine emerging and intersectional topics: equity, income, and justice; technology, pharmaceuticals, markets, and innovation; population health; and global health.

Authors

  • Kathryn A Phillips
    UCSF Center for Translational and Policy Research on Precision Medicine (TRANSPERS), University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, United States.
  • Deborah A Marshall
    Department of Community Health Sciences, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta T2N 4Z6, Canada.
  • Loren Adler
    USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy, Brookings Institution, Washington, DC 90089, United States.
  • Jose Figueroa
    Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, United States.
  • Simon F Haeder
    Department of Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, United States.
  • Rita Hamad
    Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, United States.
  • Inmaculada Hernandez
    Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA 92093, United States.
  • Corrina Moucheraud
    Department of Health Policy and Management, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, United States.
  • Sayeh Nikpay
    Division of Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, United States.

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