Health Policy

Health Affairs is a US journal with wide, multidisciplinary readership that covers health policy and the impact of health reforms, with a focus on healthcare access, quality, and cost.

Impact Factor: 9.7 / Cite Score: 15

Health Affairs Scholar is a fully open access, peer-reviewed journal of emerging and global health policy. Published under the aegis of Health Affairs and Project HOPE, the journal builds on Health Affairs’ wide, multidisciplinary community of scholars and policy leaders to share new research and evidence with swift online publication.  

In addition to covering core health policy topics of health care costs, access, quality and equity, Health Affairs Scholar highlights innovative cross-cutting research and commentary in health care technology, population health, and global health. Of interest are papers in emerging health policy research areas as well as research from intersecting fields of scholarship such as the environment, health and social services, housing, transportation, income, and justice.

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Health Policy aims to inform discussions about how to improve health policies by publishing high quality research articles with clear policy implications that are relevant for an international audience. It intends to enhance communication between (1) researchers analysing health systems, health policies, and health reforms and (2) legislators, decision-makers and professionals concerned with developing and implementing these policies.

Health Policy is an interdisciplinary journal at the interface between health policy, health systems research, health services research, health economics, health care management, political and policy sciences, public health, and related disciplines. The focus is on high-income countries, primarily outside the US.

Impact Factor: 3.6 / Cite Score: 6.4

International Journal of Health Policy and Management (IJHPM) is an open access and peer-reviewed journal, which serves as an international and interdisciplinary setting for the dissemination of health policy and management research. It brings together individual specialties from different fields, notably health management, health policy, and health economics into a dynamic academic mix.
 
IJHPM is intended to enhance communication among health system researchers, policy and decision makers, legislators, practitioners, educators, administrators, students, and other types of allied health professionals in the research and healthcare delivery systems. Geographical coverage including coverage of the poorest countries and low- and middle- income countries is a priority at the IJHPM. 

Impact Factor: 4.967 / Cite Score: 5.4

Journal of Market Access & Health Policy (JMAHP) is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal that covers all different subdisciplines of market access from economic, technical, scientific, sociological, psychological and policy perspectives. The journal is owned by the Market Access Society, and is published quarterly online by MDPI.

Impact Factor: n/a / Cite Score: 4.9