Health Expectations

Health Expectations
Online ISSN: 1369-7625 Impact Factor: 2.173
Description
Health Expectations promotes critical thinking and informed debate about all aspects of public participation in health care and health policy, including:
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Patient-centred care and quality improvement
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Patients' participation in treatment decisions
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Public perceptions of health services
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Citizen involvement health care policy making and priority-setting
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Methods for monitoring and evaluating participation
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Empowerment and consumerism
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Patients' role in safety and quality
Health Expectations is a quarterly, peer-reviewed journal publishing original research, review articles and critical commentaries. It includes papers which clarify concepts, develop theories, and critically analyse and evaluate specific policies and practices. The Journal provides a multi-disciplinary and international forum in which researchers from a variety of backgrounds can present their work to other researchers, policy makers, health care professionals, managers and consumer advocates.