''Health Policy'' is a monthly peer-reviewed academic journal covering

health policy Health policy can be defined as the "decisions, plans, and actions that are undertaken to achieve specific healthcare goals within a society".World Health Organization''Health Policy'' accessed 22 March 2011(Web archive)/ref> According to the ...

and

health care Health care or healthcare is the improvement of health via the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, amelioration or cure of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in people. Health care is delivered by health profe ...

. It was established in 1979 as ''Health Policy and Education'', obtaining its current name in 1984. It is published by Elsevier and the editor-in-chief is

Reinhard Busse Reinhard Busse (born 26 March 1963) is a German physician and health economics, health economist. He is a university professor at Technische Universität Berlin, where he has, since 2002, headed the Academic department, Department of Healthcare M ...

(

Berlin University of Technology The Technical University of Berlin (official name both in English and german: link=no, Technische Universität Berlin, also known as TU Berlin and Berlin Institute of Technology) is a public research university located in Berlin, Germany. It was ...

). According to the '' Journal Citation Reports'', the journal has a 2017 impact factor of 2.293.

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*{{Official website, http://www.healthpolicyjrnl.com/ Health policy journals Elsevier academic journals Academic journals established in 1979 Monthly journals English-language journals