Health Affairs

Description

Health Affairs has devoted many of its issues to the in-depth exploration of particular policy topics. These thematic issues gather together in one place the top research, important data, and policy thinking of leaders in the field. We have found that Health Affairs' readers refer to these thematic volumes for years afterwards--using them as classroom textbooks, primers, and resource material.

The process for a typical theme issues begins with a planning session about one year before publication involving a small group of experts; the aim of the meeting is to identify appropriate topics and authors for consideration for the issue. Following this session, Health Affairs may directly invite some authors to submit work for consideration; we also issue a “Request for Abstracts” to a large group of potential authors identified at the planning session. We typically invite authors of 10-12 of these abstracts to submit a full paper for consideration for the issue. We also consider unsolicited papers on related topics for these theme issues, as long as the papers arrive by the appropriate deadline for the issue. Invitation or submission by the deadline does not guarantee publication; all papers (including invited papers) go through the peer review process, and our publication decisions are based partly on the outcome of that process.

Basic submissions requirements and guidelines, and answers to FAQs.

2012

PEPFAR, July 2012
Request for abstracts due December 15, 2011
Manuscript submissions due no later than February 28, 2012

Payment Reform, September 2012
Request for abstracts due January 9, 2012
Manuscript submissions due no later than April 1, 2012

Ongoing New Section of Journal

The Care Span
Request for papers issue March 2011