Health Policy and Planning 2005 20(5):266; doi:10.1093/heapol/czi040
© The Author 2005. Published by Oxford University Press in association with The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. All rights reserved.
Editorial
Welcome to this edition of
Health Policy and Planning, celebrating
our 20th year of publication. Health Policy and Planning's aim
is to improve the design and implementation of health policies
in low- and middle-income countries through providing a forum
for publishing high quality research and original ideas, for
an audience of policy and public health researchers and practitioners.
Health Policy and Planning is
published six times a year (2
monthly).
Specific objectives are to:
- Attract high quality research papers, reviews and debates on topics relevant to health policies in low- and middle-income countries;
- Ensure wide geographical coverage of papers including coverage of the poorest countries and those in transition;
- Encourage and support researchers from low- and middle-income countries to publish in HPP;
- Ensure papers reflect a broad range of disciplines, methodologies and topics;
- Ensure that papers are clearly explained and accessible to readers from the range of disciplines used to analyze health policies; and
- Provide a fair, supportive and high quality peer review process.
Our
Instructions to authors have been
updated. Authors should pay close attention to the factors that
will increase likelihood of acceptance. As well as the high
overall quality required for publication in an international
journal, authors should address HPP's readership: national and
international policy makers, practitioners, academics and general
readers with a particular interest in health policy issues and
debates. Manuscripts that fail to set out the international
debates to which the paper contributes, and to draw out policy
lessons and conclusions, are more likely to be rejected, returned
to the authors for redrafting prior to being reviewed, or undergo
a slower acceptance process. In addition, economists should
note that papers accepted for publication in HPP will consider
the broad policy implications of an economic analysis rather
than focusing primarily on the methodological or theoretical
aspects of the study. Public health specialists writing about
a specific health problem or service should discuss the relevance
of the analysis for the broader health system. Those submitting
health policy analyses should draw on relevant bodies of theory
in their analysis, or justify why they have not, rather than
only presenting a narrative based on empirical data.
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