The ''Milbank Quarterly'' is a quarterly

peer-reviewed Peer review is the evaluation of work by one or more people with similar competencies as the producers of the work (peers). It functions as a form of self-regulation by qualified members of a profession within the relevant field. Peer review ...

healthcare journal This is a list of academic journals on health care. General *''Health Affairs'' *''Health and Human Rights'' *''Human Resources for Health'' *'' Health Service Journal'' *'' Milbank Quarterly'' Epidemiology *'' American Journal of Epidemiology ...

covering

health care 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 ...

. It was established in 1923 and is published by

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on behalf of the Milbank Memorial Fund, an endowed national foundation funded by

Elizabeth Milbank Anderson Elizabeth Milbank Anderson (December 20, 1850 – February 22, 1921), American philanthropist and advocate for public health and women's education, was the daughter of Jeremiah Milbank (1818–1884), a successful commission merchant, manufactur ...

that supports research of issues related to population health and health policy. It covers topics such as the impact of social factors on health, prevention, allocation of health care resources, legal and ethical issues in health policy, health and health care administration, and the organization and financing of health care. The Milbank Memorial Fund has historically funded controversial health care practices, including the

Tuskegee Syphilis Study The Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male (informally referred to as the Tuskegee Experiment or Tuskegee Syphilis Study) was a study conducted between 1932 and 1972 by the United States Public Health Service (PHS) and the Cente ...

, in which

African Americans African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans and Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from sub-Saharan Africa. The term "African American" generally denotes descendants of ens ...

were systematically and deceptively denied critical care for the benefit of the white scientific community. In June 2022, it apologized to descendants of the study’s victims for its the role in the study.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed by: According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2020

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of 4.911, ranking it 16th out of 108 journals in the category "Health Care Sciences & Services" and 8th out of 88 journals in the category "Health Policy & Services".

Previous titles

The journal was established in 1923 as ''The Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly Bulletin''. In 1934 it was renamed ''The Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly'', and in 1973 ''The Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly: Health and Society''. It obtained its current name in 1986.

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* {{Official website, http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1468-0009 Publications established in 1923 Public health journals English-language journals Wiley (publisher) academic journals Quarterly journals