Health affairs
| Health affairs
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| description | American science magazine |
| Area of Expertise | Healthcare |
| language | English |
| First edition | 1981 |
| Frequency of publication | 6 times a year |
| Editor-in-chief | Susan Dentzer |
| editor | Project HOPE - The People-to-People Health Foundation, Inc. |
| Web link | healthaffairs.org |
| ISSN (print) | 0278-2715 |
Health Affairs is a regular, English-language trade journal that deals with the subject of health care . It was founded in 1981 by the non-profit organization Project HOPE, which operates international health education . It is a peer-reviewed science journal with 10,000 American and international subscribers. It is one of the most cited journals in its field. According to the ISI Web of Knowledge , the impact factor in 2012 was 4.641, which puts the journal in second place in the Health Care Sciences & Services category (out of 82 journals) after Milbank Quarterly .
Sections
The magazine is divided into the following sections:
- Featured articles
- contains articles on emerging trends, scientific research, and analysis of current health policy issues
- Report From The Field
- contains highly qualified journalistic articles that analyze a current topic in health policy. It is published in collaboration with the Kaiser Family Foundation and Kaiser Health Reporting
- Commentary
- represents opinions and reform promises
- Interviews
- includes interviews with leaders in government or private health organizations
- Narrative Matters
- contains personal reports on the health system addressing pressing health policy issues
- Health tracking
- presents trend research and developments in the health market
- DataWatch
- contains articles presenting data analysis and original research
- GrantWatch
- reports on the award of subsidies to charitable foundations and on the results of the foundation's work
- Book reviews
- contains reviews of books on the health system or health care topics
- Letters to the Editor
- contains letters to the editor
Individual evidence
- ↑ Retrieved from the journal HealthAffairs.org (English) on September 9, 2009
- ↑ Impact-factor from Health Affairs ( Memento of the original from June 18, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In-Cites.com (English) accessed on September 9, 2009
- ^ ISI Web of Knowledge, Journal Citation Reports Science Edition, 2012.
