Longwoods Publishing, The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Institute of Health Services and Policy Research, the Canadian Association for Health Services and Policy Research (CAHSPR) and Editor-in-Chief Brian Hutchison are pleased to announce the birth of the new quarterly journal, Healthcare Policy, and to issue the journal's first call for papers. This announcement is the culmination of much effort over many years by committed individuals and organizations to establish a Canadian health services, management and policy journal.
Healthcare Policy will publish original scholarly and research papers that support health policy development and decision making in spheres ranging from governance, organization and service delivery to funding and resource allocation. Healthcare Policy will strive to meet the needs of readers from diverse backgrounds including health system managers, practitioners, policy makers, educators and academics. The journal will be supportive of interdisciplinary research and open to researchers from a broad range of disciplines including (without intending to be exhaustive) health services and policy, social sciences, humanities, ethics, law and management sciences. Submissions from decision makers or researcher-decision maker collaborations that address knowledge exchange and application will be welcomed.
Themes addressed in the journal will include (again without intending to be exhaustive) those identified in the recent national consultation on health services and policy issues in Canada, Listening for Directions II:
The journal's distinguished editorial team, drawn from both the research and decision-making communities, consists of:
Editor-in-Chief
Brian Hutchison MD, MSC, FCFP
Senior Editors
François Béland, PhD
Rick Roger, MHSA
Editors
Luc Boileau, MD, MSc, FRCPC
Colleen Flood, PhD
John Horne, PhD
Pascale Lehoux, PhD
Chair, Editorial Advisory Board
Robert Evans, PhD
Managing Editor
Dianne Foster Kent
Healthcare Policy invites authors to submit manuscripts that address health services, management and policy issues that are relevant to the Canadian context. The peer review process will include both academic and decision-maker reviewers and will consider both the scientific quality of the work and its contribution to knowledge that can inform health policy, planning and management.
Longwoods Publishing anticipates that the first issue of the journal will be available (electronically and in print) by late summer or early fall 2005.
For more information on submitting a paper for peer review or on becoming a reviewer, please contact Managing Editor Dianne Foster-Kent at dkent@longwoods.com.
