期刊名称：HEALTH RESEARCH POLICY AND SYSTEMS
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
Health Research Policy and Systems aims to provide a platform for the global research community to share their findings, insights and views about all aspects of the organisation of health research systems – including agenda setting, building health research capacity, and how research as a whole benefits decision makers and practitioners in health and related fields and society at large.
Health Research Policy and Systems considers manuscripts that investigate the role of evidence-based health policy and health research systems in ensuring the efficient utilization and application of knowledge to improve health and health equity, especially in developing countries. Research is the foundation for improvements in public health. The problem is that people involved in different areas of research, together with managers and administrators in charge of research entities, do not communicate sufficiently with each other. How well informed is the public of the results of their research? How do they make sure that what they do will actually improve health? Do they have good links with the decision makers who can actually influence how their research findings are used? Is the money used to sponsor their activities spent wisely, fairly and efficiently? Are there means to assess the impact and utility of their work? How many of them are leaving the country for greener pastures? How can they be enticed to stay?
Through the publication and dissemination of quality research, the journal's mission is to provide a vehicle and a forum for furthering the intellectual debate and discourse on the important role of evidence-based Health Research Policy and Systems. It is all about sharing knowledge in order to improve health and health equity, especially in developing countries.
Related subjects » Public Health - Social Policy / Labor / Population Economics - Wellbeing & Quality-of-Life
All articles published in Health Research Policy and Systems are included in PubMed, the most widely used biomedical bibliographic database service, which is run by the US National Library of Medicine. Other bibliographic databases that index articles published in Health Research Policy and Systems include:
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Instructions to Authors
Please make sure you have satisfied the points on the following checklist before submitting your manuscript. If you have any questions about the submission process, please contact info@biomedcentral.com. If you are submitting a manuscript to a particular Special Issue, please refer to its specific name in your covering letter.
1. Email addresses
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2. Instructions for Authors
Have you read the detailed Instructions for Authors for Health Research Policy and Systems? You may also like to read Health Research Policy and Systems's peer review policy.
If you are planning to submit a TeX file, please submit your TeX file as the main manuscript file and your bib/bbl file as a dependent file. Please also convert your TeX file into a PDF and submit this PDF as an additional file with the name 'Reference PDF'. This PDF will be used by internal staff as a reference point to check the layout of the article as the author intended.
3. Covering letter, peer reviewers and editorial board selection
Have you prepared a covering letter for your submission, explaining why we should publish your manuscript and elaborating on any issues relating to our editorial policies detailed in the instructions for authors, and declaring any potential competing interests? This should be provided using the 'cover letter' section of the submission process. And do you have the contact details (including email addresses) of at least four potential peer reviewers for your paper,which you will need at the same time? These should be experts in your field of study, who will be able to provide an objective assessment of the manuscript's quality. Any peer reviewers you suggest should not have recently published with any of the authors of your manuscript and should not be members of the same research institution. You will be asked to select the one or two Editorial Board members whose interests most closely match the subject of your manuscript.
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Additional files
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Files must be named with the three letter file extension appropriate to the file type (eg .pdf, .xls, .txt)
Additional material files should include necessary material that cannot be included in the PDF version of the published article, such as large datasets or movies . Tables should ordinarily be included in the manuscript file, unless they are exceptionally large (more than 2 manuscript pages or 90 rows). The manuscript file should include a short description of any additional files and software necessary to view them.
Please refer to the Instructions for Authors for further information about suitable file types.
5. Article-processing charges
An article processing charge of £1310/US$2140/€1575 is payable for articles accepted for publication in Health Research Policy and Systems.
If your institution, society or other organization is a member, this cost may be wholly or partly covered by the membership arrangement. If you are applying for an institutional membership payment, the submitting author must be affiliated with the member institution.
Article processing charge waivers or discounts are granted on a case-by-case basis to authors who lack funds. To apply for a waiver or discount, please request one during the submission process. A decision on the waiver will normally be made within two working days.
Submission of the article to the journal can be completed once the payment method has been agreed. Any applicable article processing charge must be paid prior to publication.
Submissions from EU countries are subject to VAT (Value Added Tax). EU customers must supply their VAT Number to be exempt from VAT charge. UK Customers are not exempt from VAT charge. If you choose to pay by a method other than by credit card, there is an administration surcharge applicable.
For more information, see our article processing charge FAQ. Find out how to recommend that your institution become a member.
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If not, you cannot submit the article on behalf of the authors.
As part of the submission process you will assign a contact author for the article, and this can be yourself or a co-author where they are registered. Once the manuscript is submitted the contact author takes responsibility so only they will be able to access the manuscript online in the 'My manuscripts' section of the website and receive correspondence sent throughout the peer review and production process.
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Editorial Board
Founding Editor
Managing Editor
- Dr Rosanna Gonzalez-McQuire HARPS, United Kingdom
Associate Editors
- Dr Metin Gulmezoglu World Health Organisation, Switzerland
- Dr Carlos Morel Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Ministry of Health, Brazil
- Dr Ritu Sadana World Health Organization, Switzerland
Editorial Board
- Dr Bienvenido Alano Centre for Economic Policy Research, Philippines
- Prof Zulfiqar Bhutta Aga Khan University, Pakistan
- Dr Karl CP Blanchet London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom
- Dr Mario Bronfman Pertzovsky Ford Foundation, Mexico
- Dr Lincoln Chen China Medical Board, United States of America
- Dr Somsak Chunharas Thailand National Health Research Foundation, Thailand
- Dr Susan E Cozzens Georgia Institute of Technology, United States of America
- Prof Dame Sally Davies Department of Health, England, United Kingdom
- Dr Andres de Francisco World Health Organization, Switzerland
- Prof Hengjin Dong Zhejiang University, China
- Dr Reinaldo Guimaraes Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Brazil
- Prof Sir Andrew Haines London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom
- Dr Maimunah Hamid Ministry of Health, Malaysia
- Dr Adnan A Hyder Johns Hopkins University, United States of America
- Dr Marian Jacobs University of Cape Town, South Africa
- Dr Gerald T Keusch Boston University, United States of America
- Dr Andrew Kitua National Institute for Medical Research, Tanzania
- Dr Mary-Ann Lansang University of Philippines, Philippines
- Dr Meng Kin Lim National University of Singapore, Singapore
- Dr Sarah Macfarlane University of California San Fransisco, United States of America
- Prof Anne Mills London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom
- Dr Mutuma Mugambi Kenya Methodist University, Kenya
- Dr Berit Olsson SIDA, Sweden
- Prof Alan Pettigrew University of New England, Australia
- Dr David D Picou Caribbean Health Research Council, Trinidad and Tobago
- Dr Gopal Prasadacharya KIST Medical College, Nepal
- Dr Nancy G Saravia Centro Internacional de Entrenamiento e Investigaciones Medicas, Colombia
- Dr Jonathon Simon Boston University, United States of America
- Dr Chitr Sitthi-Amorn College of Public Health, Thailand
- Dr Agus Suwandono Ministry of Health, Indonesia
- Dr Delia Sánchez Pan American Health Organization, Uruguay
- Dr Cesar G Victora Johns Hopkins University, United States of America
- Dr Karin Wiedenmayer Swiss Center for International Health, Switzerland
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