The ''Milbank Quarterly'' is a quarterly
peer-reviewed 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
John Wiley & Sons
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., commonly known as Wiley (), is an American multinational publishing company founded in 1807 that focuses on academic publishing and instructional materials. The company produces books, journals, and encyclopedias, ...
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 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 ''
Journal Citation Reports
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'', the journal has a 2020
impact factor
The impact factor (IF) or journal impact factor (JIF) of an academic journal is a scientometric index calculated by Clarivate that reflects the yearly mean number of citations of articles published in the last two years in a given journal, as ...
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.
References
External links
* {{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