Mark Hellowell
Biographic Data
| ID | 6180344 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark Hellowell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark |
| FAMILY NAME | Hellowell |
| SIGNATURE | HELLOWELL M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Edinburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3474-2080 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The role of EU funds in capital investment for health-care
BACKGROUND: Many health systems need substantial capital investment to advance people-centred, integrated care, but public capital budgets are often constrained. Estonia strategically leveraged EU grants to enable provider-network transformation alongside broader service-delivery reforms. REFORM CONTENT: After EU accession, Estonia leveraged EU grants to finance coordinated programmes of investment aligned with national strategies. Across 121 pro…
Private provision of health services in Georgia
INTRODUCTION: The private sector occupies a dominant position in Georgia's health system, with most hospitals, primary care clinics, diagnostic facilities, pharmacies and insurance companies under for-profit ownership. Robust governance arrangements are required to align the profit-orientation of providers with health policy objectives. METHODS: This paper examines governance arrangements in Georgia's 'mixed' health system. It draws on document a…
Private provision of health services in Ukraine
BACKGROUND: The role of private healthcare providers (PHPs) in Ukraine has increased, despite the ongoing war. As the Government of Ukraine (GoU) continues health reforms, governance mechanisms for PHPs need further examination. OBJECTIVE: This study assesses the policy responses to the growth of PHPs in Ukraine, focusing on four key state functions: information generation, regulation, purchasing, and policy-making. METHODS: A qualitative approac…
New health taxes in Ghana
In the context of a fiscal crisis and health pressures, Ghana’s government has been exploring additional pro-health taxes. The World Health Organization and World Bank support health taxes as ‘win-win’ policies that can, if designed effectively, simultaneously improve health and raise revenue for health spending. However, international evidence shows that health taxes can meet political and public opposition. Yet, there is little research that em…
Approaches, enablers and barriers to govern the private sector in health in low- and middle-income countries
INTRODUCTION: The private sector plays a substantial role in delivering and financing healthcare in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Supporting governments to govern the private sector effectively, and so improve outcomes across the health system, requires an understanding of the evidence base on private health sector governance. This paper reports on a scoping review, which synthesised evidence on the approaches used to govern private s…
Sustaining progress towards universal health coverage amidst a full-scale war
In the aftermath of Russia’s military response to the 2014 Revolution of Dignity, the government of Ukraine implemented a package of health financing reforms underpinned by universal health coverage (UHC) principles. By the time of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the new systems and institutions envisaged in the reforms were largely established. In this Commentary article, we explain how these attributes strengthened the…
An exploration of stakeholder views and perceptions on taxing tobacco, alcohol and sugar-sweetened beverages in Ghana
BACKGROUND: Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) account for nearly 43% of Ghana's all-cause mortality. Unhealthy commodities (such as alcohol, sugar and tobacco) are an important factor in the growing NCD burden in the region of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Despite health taxes on tobacco, alcohol and sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) gaining renewed attention, adoption and implementation in SSA remain limited. This study aims to unpack the contextual p…
Powerful ideas? Decolonisation and the future of global health
Interrogating the World Bank’s role in global health knowledge production, governance, and finance
Public–Private Partnerships
Public–Private Partnership (PPP) has been a widespread model to fund and develop infrastructure in the last 20 years. The model still remains an option for Governments across the world to cope with curtailed public budget and the need to make public services more efficient and effective. However, the complexity of the model requires the development of an adequate set of skills in order to inform the policymaker and to structure and execute more s…
Policy lessons from health taxes
The Non-Incremental Road to Disaster? A Comparative Policy Analysis of Agency Problems in the Commissioning of Infrastructure Projects in the UK and Italy
Theoretical research on public–private partnerships has emphasised their ability to address agency problems in infrastructure projects. Despite this, there is a substantial body of empirical research which documents the tendency of such projects to create budgetary problems for the state authorities involved. This article seeks to explore how and why these problems occur through case studies of PPP hospital projects in England and Italy. It shows…
Beyond Rhetorical Differences
Health is perhaps the most significant policy area to be devolved to decision‐makers in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. Consequently, there has been a great deal of interest in assessing the extent to which health policies (which already differed somewhat prior to devolution) have diverged since 1999. To date, analyses have tended to focus either on health care policies or on specific public health issues (e.g. health inequalities or tobacc…
Non-Profit Distribution
This article provides an analysis of the Scottish Government's approach to the use of private finance in public services. It examines the budgetary drivers behind the policy in Scotland and assesses its cost-efficiency. In doing so, it considers first the standard private finance initiative (PFI) model, and then turns to the ‘non-profit distributing’ (NPD) model – a variant of PFI developed in Scotland and one that is, at the time of writing, uni…
Beyond Rhetorical Differences
Health is perhaps the most significant policy area to be devolved to decision‐makers in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. Consequently, there has been a great deal of interest in assessing the extent to which health policies (which already differed somewhat prior to devolution) have diverged since 1999. To date, analyses have tended to focus either on health care policies or on specific public health issues (e.g. health inequalities or tobacc…
The Non-Incremental Road to Disaster? A Comparative Policy Analysis of Agency Problems in the Commissioning of Infrastructure Projects in the UK and Italy
Theoretical research on public–private partnerships has emphasised their ability to address agency problems in infrastructure projects. Despite this, there is a substantial body of empirical research which documents the tendency of such projects to create budgetary problems for the state authorities involved. This article seeks to explore how and why these problems occur through case studies of PPP hospital projects in England and Italy. It shows…
Non-Profit Distribution
This article provides an analysis of the Scottish Government's approach to the use of private finance in public services. It examines the budgetary drivers behind the policy in Scotland and assesses its cost-efficiency. In doing so, it considers first the standard private finance initiative (PFI) model, and then turns to the ‘non-profit distributing’ (NPD) model – a variant of PFI developed in Scotland and one that is, at the time of writing, uni…
Non-Profit Distribution
This article provides an analysis of the Scottish Government's approach to the use of private finance in public services. It examines the budgetary drivers behind the policy in Scotland and assesses its cost-efficiency. In doing so, it considers first the standard private finance initiative (PFI) model, and then turns to the ‘non-profit distributing’ (NPD) model – a variant of PFI developed in Scotland and one that is, at the time of writing, uni…
Beyond Rhetorical Differences
Health is perhaps the most significant policy area to be devolved to decision‐makers in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. Consequently, there has been a great deal of interest in assessing the extent to which health policies (which already differed somewhat prior to devolution) have diverged since 1999. To date, analyses have tended to focus either on health care policies or on specific public health issues (e.g. health inequalities or tobacc…
The Non-Incremental Road to Disaster? A Comparative Policy Analysis of Agency Problems in the Commissioning of Infrastructure Projects in the UK and Italy
Theoretical research on public–private partnerships has emphasised their ability to address agency problems in infrastructure projects. Despite this, there is a substantial body of empirical research which documents the tendency of such projects to create budgetary problems for the state authorities involved. This article seeks to explore how and why these problems occur through case studies of PPP hospital projects in England and Italy. It shows…
Policy lessons from health taxes
Public–Private Partnerships
Public–Private Partnership (PPP) has been a widespread model to fund and develop infrastructure in the last 20 years. The model still remains an option for Governments across the world to cope with curtailed public budget and the need to make public services more efficient and effective. However, the complexity of the model requires the development of an adequate set of skills in order to inform the policymaker and to structure and execute more s…
Interrogating the World Bank’s role in global health knowledge production, governance, and finance
Powerful ideas? Decolonisation and the future of global health
An exploration of stakeholder views and perceptions on taxing tobacco, alcohol and sugar-sweetened beverages in Ghana
BACKGROUND: Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) account for nearly 43% of Ghana's all-cause mortality. Unhealthy commodities (such as alcohol, sugar and tobacco) are an important factor in the growing NCD burden in the region of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Despite health taxes on tobacco, alcohol and sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) gaining renewed attention, adoption and implementation in SSA remain limited. This study aims to unpack the contextual p…
Approaches, enablers and barriers to govern the private sector in health in low- and middle-income countries
INTRODUCTION: The private sector plays a substantial role in delivering and financing healthcare in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Supporting governments to govern the private sector effectively, and so improve outcomes across the health system, requires an understanding of the evidence base on private health sector governance. This paper reports on a scoping review, which synthesised evidence on the approaches used to govern private s…
Sustaining progress towards universal health coverage amidst a full-scale war
In the aftermath of Russia’s military response to the 2014 Revolution of Dignity, the government of Ukraine implemented a package of health financing reforms underpinned by universal health coverage (UHC) principles. By the time of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the new systems and institutions envisaged in the reforms were largely established. In this Commentary article, we explain how these attributes strengthened the…
Private provision of health services in Georgia
INTRODUCTION: The private sector occupies a dominant position in Georgia's health system, with most hospitals, primary care clinics, diagnostic facilities, pharmacies and insurance companies under for-profit ownership. Robust governance arrangements are required to align the profit-orientation of providers with health policy objectives. METHODS: This paper examines governance arrangements in Georgia's 'mixed' health system. It draws on document a…
Private provision of health services in Ukraine
BACKGROUND: The role of private healthcare providers (PHPs) in Ukraine has increased, despite the ongoing war. As the Government of Ukraine (GoU) continues health reforms, governance mechanisms for PHPs need further examination. OBJECTIVE: This study assesses the policy responses to the growth of PHPs in Ukraine, focusing on four key state functions: information generation, regulation, purchasing, and policy-making. METHODS: A qualitative approac…
New health taxes in Ghana
In the context of a fiscal crisis and health pressures, Ghana’s government has been exploring additional pro-health taxes. The World Health Organization and World Bank support health taxes as ‘win-win’ policies that can, if designed effectively, simultaneously improve health and raise revenue for health spending. However, international evidence shows that health taxes can meet political and public opposition. Yet, there is little research that em…
The role of EU funds in capital investment for health-care
BACKGROUND: Many health systems need substantial capital investment to advance people-centred, integrated care, but public capital budgets are often constrained. Estonia strategically leveraged EU grants to enable provider-network transformation alongside broader service-delivery reforms. REFORM CONTENT: After EU accession, Estonia leveraged EU grants to finance coordinated programmes of investment aligned with national strategies. Across 121 pro…
Political science (11 works) · Business (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Public relations (6 works) · Economic growth (5 works) · Global Maternal and Child Health (5 works) · Health care (5 works) · Healthcare Systems and Reforms (5 works) · Politics (5 works)