Health Policy and Planning
Last updated ISSN 0268-1080
Health Policy and Planning is published by Oxford University Press in medicine. It is open access. The article processing charge is $3,195.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Health Policy and Planning concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Global Maternal and Child Health
- Healthcare Systems and Reforms
- Global Health Care Issues
- Healthcare Policy and Management
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
- Primary Care and Health Outcomes
- Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses
Key facts
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0268-1080, 1460-2237 |
| Subject area | Medicine |
| Access | Open access |
| Article processing charge | $3,195 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Web of Science — Social Sciences Citation Index · Scopus · DOAJ |
| Articles published | 3,741 |
| Publishing since | 1951 |
| Journal website | academic.oup.com/heapol |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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