Description: Health Affairs is the leading journal of health policy thought and research. All papers are peer-reviewed, and the acceptance rate is 10–15 percent. Published since 1981, Health Affairs is nonpartisan and presents a wide range of timely research and commentary on health issues of current concern in both domestic and international spheres.

“For more than 20 years, Health Affairs has been a must-read for anyone with a serious interest in medicine, health care, and health care policy,” (Washington Post, 11 January 2004).

Frequency: Number of issues per year is six with additional supplements. Online-only peer-reviewed papers of a timely nature are published weekly on average as Web Exclusives.

Pages: Pages published in 2005 total 2,388, including Supplements. Three Supplements were published in 2005.

Online Availability: Every article Health Affairs has ever published is available online at www.healthaffairs.org. The 25-year archive is fully searchable. All back content is free access after three years. Selected content is free access at time of posting, including Editor’s Choice articles, Web Exclusives, Narrative Matters, Grants and Outcomes, UpDate Publications, Book Reviews, and Letters. Health Affairs is an original signatory to the Washington, D.C. Principles for Free Access to Science.Health Affairs’ Web site is maintained in conjunction with Stanford University’s HighWire Press.

Authors: Health Affairs authors include top scholars, policymakers, and health care industry leaders. We also welcome submissions from those who do not typically write for peer-reviewed journals.

Circulation: 11,000 paid domestic and international subscribers. Readership: Three readers per issue copy (Beta Research Corp. independent survey) or 33,000 readers per printed copy. For subscription prices and ordering procedure see Subscribe.

Web Site Traffic: Page views per month average 1,000,000 as of January 2006. Annual page views total 12 million. Number of user sessions average 3 million per year. Most-read papers reach 50,000-80,000 pageviews each.

Impact Factor: 3.369 (2004 Thompson ISI). Health Affairs consistently ranks in the top of its categories (Health Policy; Health Care Science and Services) in both the Science Edition and Social Science Edition of the Journal Citation Report.

Press Citations: Health Affairs is frequently cited by national media, including theWashington Post, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, CNN, network television and radio, and National Public Radio. The January 12, 2005 Washington Post cited Health Affairs as “the bible of health policy.”

Policy Reach: Health Affairs is health policymakers’ most frequently read journal and is consulted by 55% of staff members on U.S. congressional committees of jurisdiction in health—ahead of JAMA and the New England Journal of Medicine, which are read by 17% and 10% of staff members, respectively (2003 independent survey by the Center for Studying Health System Change).

Policy Impact: Health Affairs' articles were cited 18 times in congressional testimony between January and July 2006, more than any other policy journal.

Readership: Health Affairs readers include government health leaders (U.S. federal, state, local, and international); decisionmakers at hospitals, insurance companies, and other health care industries; researchers and academics in economics, health services research, law, public health, political science, sociology, health administration, medicine, and nursing, among other fields; health policy analysts and advocates.

Topics Covered: Health Affairs is a multidisciplinary journal covering a wide range of health issues. Topics covered include: access to care, health spending, quality, Medicare, Medicaid, prescription drug coverage and costs, physician practice, nursing trends, mental health, malpractice and health law, insurance reform, hospitals, global health, and disparities in health care, among others. To view a complete list of topics, see Topic Collections.

Founding Editor: John K. Iglehart, national correspondent for the New England Journal of Medicine; member, Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences; former editor, National Journal. Executive Editor: Donald E. Metz.

Inside the Journal: Health Affairs is divided into the following major sections:

• Feature articles: New proposals, original research, and analysis of timely health policy issues

• Commentary: Opinions and proposals for change·

• Interviews: Conversations with leaders in government and the private sector

• Narrative Matters: Personal stories about the health care system that highlight policy issues of concern

• Health Tracking: New research on trends and health care markets

• DataWatch: Data-driven analysis and original research

• GrantWatch: A review of recently awarded foundation grants and grant outcomes, with regular essays or special reports about health philanthropy

• UpDate: News from the states or other countries.

• Book Reviews

• Letters to the Editor: Lively discussion of issues raised in Health Affairs papers

Thematic Issues: Health Affairs publishes both thematic and “variety” issues every year. Thematic issues (up to five per year) are devoted to in-depth exploration of a single topic.

Web Exclusives: Online-only papers are published weekly, on average, as Web Exclusives at www.healthaffairs.org. An abstract for each Web Exclusive paper is published in the first bound volume that follows the paper’s publication on the Web. Web Exclusive papers are subject to the same peer review, evaluation, and editing as any other paper published by Health Affairs. They are indexed in the literature at time of posting and annually with the journal’s yearly index, by author and by subject.
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Indexes/Abstracts: Health Affairs is indexed and/or abstracted in Current Contents/Health Services Administration and Social and Behavioral Sciences; EBSCOhost; Health Planning and Administration Database; Index Medicus; International Pharmaceutical Abstracts; MEDLINE; Lexis-Nexis; OCLC; ProQuest; the Sciences and Social Sciences Citation Index; and SwetsWise Online Content.

Subscriptions: Health Affairs is available by subscription to individuals and site-wide to libraries and institutions. See Subscribe for more information.

ISSN: 0278-2715 Electronic ISSN: 1544-5208

Federal Tax I.D. Number : 53-0242962
Publisher: Health Affairs is published and copyrighted by Project HOPE - The People-to-People Health Foundation, Inc.

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