Health Economics
A section of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601).
Section Information
Health Economics can be defined as the application of the theories, concepts and techniques of economics to any issue related to health. During the last decades there has been a growing interest in this field which partly can be explained by the reduced economic growth, deficits in public budgets and increased unemployment rates and partly by the rapid introduction of new and more expensive health care technologies. The increasing number of treatments that potentially can be used to improve health has led to a widening gap between what the health sector technically can achieve and what society is able and willing to pay. This has led to an increased attention to economic research questions in the health sector. Health economics research focuses particularly on issues within a number of different areas related to the health sector such as economics of public health, organization, financing and incentives of different actors related to the health sector, and methods for the economic evaluation of medical technologies and prevention. This section is devoted to health economics as it represents a discipline on its own in economic research with strong relevance to significant issues covered by this journal.
Keywords
- health economic evaluation and analysis
- health insurance and payment systems
- cost-effectiveness
- health care expenditure
- Efficiency and distributional aspects of health
- financing of health service
- policy interventions of public health
- economic incentives of health care
- health organization and administration
Editorial Board
Topical Advisory Panel
Special Issues
Following special issues within this section are currently open for submissions:
- Social, Economic and Health Impacts of Injuries (Deadline: 30 September 2023)
- Accessibility to Health Services for Migrants, Refugees and Rural Communities (Deadline: 30 September 2023)
- The 2nd Edition: Livable, Healthy and Lively Cities and Tourism Destinations: Facing Pandemics and Other Crisis Situations (Deadline: 30 September 2023)
- Topical Advisory Panel Members' Collection Series: Models in Economic Evaluations of Pharmaceuticals (Deadline: 30 September 2023)
- Health-Economic Evaluation and Value-Based Health Care (Deadline: 30 September 2023)
- Health Economics of Population Aging (Deadline: 31 October 2023)
- Health Economics and Efficiency in Healthcare (Deadline: 30 November 2023)
- Clinical Treatment and Public Health (Deadline: 30 November 2023)
- COVID and the Economics of Public Health (Deadline: 31 December 2023)
- Health Economic Analysis of Drug Therapy (Deadline: 31 December 2023)
- The Importance and Impact of Health Research (Deadline: 31 December 2023)
- Cost-of-Illness Study (Deadline: 31 January 2024)
- Health Data Analytics and Evaluation (Deadline: 29 February 2024)
- Innovations in Health Economics, Social Policy and Health Management (Deadline: 31 May 2024)
- Health Economics and Health Governance in The COVID-19 Pandemic (Deadline: 7 July 2024)
