Health Expectations

Journal Title：Health Expectations

Health Expectations promotes critical thinking and informed debate about all aspects of patient and public involvement and engagement (PPIE) in health and social care, health policy and health services research including:

• Person-centred care and quality improvement

• Patients' participation in decisions about disease prevention and management

• Public perceptions of health services

• Citizen involvement in health care policy making and priority-setting

• Methods for monitoring and evaluating participation

• Empowerment and consumerism

• Patients' role in safety and quality

• Patient and public role in health services research

• Co-production (researchers working with patients and the public) of research, health care and policy

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 an inter-disciplinary and international forum in which researchers (including PPIE researchers) from a range of backgrounds and expertise can present their work to other researchers, policy-makers, health care professionals, managers, patients and consumer advocates.

《健康期望》提倡批判性思维和知情辩论，讨论患者和公众参与（PPIE）在健康和社会护理、健康政策和健康服务研究方面的所有方面，包括：

• 以人为本的护理和质量改进

• 患者参与疾病预防和管理决策

• 公众对健康服务的看法

• 公民参与健康护理政策制定和优先事项设定

• 监测和评估参与的方法

• 赋权和消费主义

• 患者在安全和质量方面的作用

• 患者和公众在健康服务研究中的作用

• 研究、医疗保健和政策的联合制作（研究人员与患者和公众合作）

《健康期望》是一份季刊，经过同行评审，发表原创研究、评论文章和评论。它包括阐明概念、发展理论以及批判性分析和评估具体政策和实践的论文。该期刊提供了一个跨学科的国际论坛，来自不同背景和专业知识的研究人员（包括 PPIE 研究人员）可以在此向其他研究人员、政策制定者、医疗保健专业人员、管理人员、患者和消费者权益倡导者展示他们的工作。

Health Expectations创刊于1998年，由Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd出版商出版，收稿方向涵盖医学 - 公共卫生、环境卫生与职业卫生全领域，此刊是中等级别的SCI期刊，所以过审相对来讲不是特别难，但是该刊专业认可度不错，仍然是一本值得选择的SCI期刊 。平均审稿速度 12周，或约稿 ，影响因子指数3，该期刊近期没有被列入国际期刊预警名单，广大学者值得一试。