As a result of the significant disruption that is being caused by the COVID-19 pandemic we are very aware that many researchers will have difficulty in meeting the timelines associated with our peer review process during normal times. Please do let us know if you need additional time. Our systems will continue to remind you of the original timelines but we intend to be highly flexible at this time.
COVID-19 and impact on peer review
Articles
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Economic evaluation of HIV testing options for low-prevalence high-income countries: a systematic review
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Investing preventive care and economic development in ageing societies: empirical evidences from OECD countries
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Analytical methods to assess the impacts of activity-based funding (ABF): a scoping review
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Mendelian randomization: estimation of inpatient hospital costs attributable to obesity
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Do health economic evaluations using observational data provide reliable assessment of treatment effects?
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The national health insurance scheme: perceptions and experiences of health care providers and clients in two districts of Ghana
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Community-based health insurance and social capital: a review
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Health and vulnerability to poverty in Ghana: evidence from the Ghana Living Standards Survey Round 5
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Measuring economic consequences of preterm birth - Methodological recommendations for the evaluation of personal burden on children and their caregivers
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Aims and scope
Health Economics Review is an international high-quality journal covering all fields of Health Economics. A broad range of theoretical contributions, empirical studies and analyses of health policy with a health economic focus will be considered for publication. Its scope includes macro- and microeconomics of health care financing, health insurance and reimbursement as well as health economic evaluation, health services research and health policy analysis. Further research topics are the individual and institutional aspects of health care management and the growing importance of health care in developing countries.
Micro-costing in economic analyses of surgical interventions
Standardisation of terminology, and focusing on identifying and accurately costing key cost-drivers may improve the quality and value of micro-costing in health economics studies. Read more...
Featured article
Decision modelling of non-pharmacological interventions for individuals with dementia: a systematic review of methodologies
Elizaveta Sopina and Jan Sørensen
About the Editors
J.-Matthias Graf von der Schulenburg, Editor-in-Chief
Prof von der Schulenburg is teaching risk and insurance and health economics at the Leibniz University Hannover. He is the Director of the Institute for Risk and Insurance. He was the Founding President of the German Society for Health Economics and the Vice President of the German Risk and Insurance Association.
Besides his appointment to the Professorship in Hannover, he was also appointed by the Universities of Cologne, Berlin, Ulm and Munich as well as by the Science Center Berlin and the Helmholtz Center Munich, what he declined. After he had received his PhD in Economics from the Universtiy of Munich, he joined the faculty of the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University. Besides being Editor-in -Chief of the Health Economics Review, he is Editor-in-Chief the European Journal of Health Economics. He received a number of awards, e.g. Alexander von Humboldt Award in 1990 and American Risk and Insurance Award in 1992. He is member of the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz and the European Academy for Sciences and Arts.
Sebastian Braun, Editor-in-Chief
Dr Sebastian Braun is Senior Director and Head of Real World Evidence Europe at Xcenda, a scientific, contract research and consulting agency for healthcare-related studies. Dr. Braun is a health economist by training and has more than 15 years of experience in planning and conducting of all kinds of observational studies as well as in the statistical analysis of datasets from various data sources. He already led a variety of over 100 different research projects in the field of German claims data analysis.
Furthermore, he has a track record of over 50 scientific publications and is a regular reviewer for different scientific journals. Dr. Braun is also an active member of the German Society for Health Economics (dggö) as well as the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR).
Jan Zeidler, Managing Editor
Dr Jan Zeidler is Managing and Research Director at the Center for Health Economics Research Hannover (CHERH). Dr. Zeidler has extensive expertise in health economic and health services related research on chronic and orphan diseases. He is the Principal Investigator of several research projects and the head of claims data analyses at CHERH.
Furthermore, he has a track record of over 60 scientific publications and is a regular reviewer for different scientific journals. Dr. Zeidler is also an active member of the German Society for Health Economics (dggö) and other national and international scientific societies.
Annual Journal Metrics
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Speed
126 days to first decision for reviewed manuscripts only
53 days to first decision for all manuscripts
196 days from submission to acceptance
19 days from acceptance to publicationCitation Impact
1.543- 2-year Impact Factor
1.142 - Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)
0.724 - SCImago Journal Rank (SJR)Usage
196,974 Downloads
127 Altmetric mentions
- ISSN: 2191-1991 (electronic)