Focus and Scope

Health Decision (HD) is an international, open access, and peer-reviewed academic journal published by Scholar Media Publishing, which focus on health economics and health policies. It is the first journal in Asian-Pacific region that serves pharmacoeconomics, health-related research, and health policy articles for decision making. HD will publish the results of the original research target on pharmacoeconomics, health economics and health policy. HD devote to stimulating discussion in academic community and helping regulator improve decision making and manage the field of science and service. The scope of HD scope include but are not limited to below subjects: Pharmacoeconomics; Health technology assessment; Evidence-based medicine; Health measurement; Pharmacoepidemiology; Public health; Clinical pharmacy; Medical Insurance and Drug Policy; Health Policy. The target audiences include: health care decision-makers; clinicians; scholars of pharmacoeconomics, health economics and health policies; and any people who are interested in health decision.

Health Decision is particularly interested in receiving articles in the following areas:

• Pharmacoeconomics & Health Technology Assessment
• Clinical pharmacy & Comparative-Effectiveness Research
• Pharmacoepidemiology
• Health service research
• Health policy
• Methodology
• Patient Reported Outcome/Survey
• Traditional Chinese Medicine
• Management and Governance

Target audience

The target audiences include: health care decision-makers; clinicians; scholars of pharmacoeconomics, health economics and health policies; and any people who are interested in health decision.

Expected content, by article type, in the journal (e.g. reviews, research articles, case reports etc.)

The type of articles published by HD include but not limited to: Editorial, Original Article, Review, Case Study, Letter, Comment, Protocal, Consensus and Guideline, Perspective and Insight.