Aims & Scope

Aims

Health Economics and Policy (ISSN 3042-898X) is an international, open-access journal dedicated to advancing rigorous economic analysis, effective governance, and evidence-informed decision-making across all aspects of health and healthcare systems. We publish comprehensive reviews, original research articles, policy briefs, and short communications that deepen our understanding of how economic principles—and the structures that govern them—can be harnessed to optimize resource allocation, improve equity and access, and shape sustainable health policy worldwide.

Scope

Health Economics and Policy invites contributions in, but not limited to, the following areas:

• health economics;
• cost‑effectiveness & economic evaluation;
• health financing & payment systems;
• health policy design & governance;
• allocation, access & equity in health care delivery;
• community health & equity;
• environmental health policy & co‑benefits;
• health insurance & risk sharing.

MDPI Publication Ethics Statement

MDPI is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). MDPI takes the responsibility to enforce a rigorous peer-review together with strict ethical policies and standards to ensure to add high quality scientific works to the field of scholarly publication. Unfortunately, cases of plagiarism, data falsification, inappropriate authorship credit, and the like, do arise. MDPI takes such publishing ethics issues very seriously and our editors are trained to proceed in such cases with a zero tolerance policy. To verify the originality of content submitted to our journals, we use iThenticate to check submissions against previous publications.

Book Reviews

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Copyright / Open Access

Articles published in HEP will be Open-Access articles distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The copyright is retained by the author(s). MDPI will insert the following note at the end of the published text:

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