About Special Editions Australia and New Zealand Health Policy is an open access, peer-reviewed, online journal aiming to improve interaction between policy practitioners and academics, and to promote debate and understanding about contemporary health policy developments in the region.
Review and critique contemporary health policy issues.
Identify major trends in health policy and emerging policy issues, including new evidence about the effect of policy changes.
Identify impacts of health services research on new policies and the interaction with other drivers shaping policy and implementation.
Identify major public policy and governance trends and their application to health policy.
Analyse contemporary health policy themes, which cut across a range of policy areas.
Report on international policy developments and new international comparisons of health policy involving Australia and/or New Zealand.
Critique contemporary health policy developments.
Although there are other international journals focussing on health policy, there are no Australian or New Zealand journals with this focus. Other related-area local journals are medical (e.g. Medical Journal of Australia, New Zealand Medical Journal), public health (Australia and New Zealand Journal of Public Health) or hospital-related (Australian Health Review). Although these journals publish occasional policy papers, this area is not their principle interest, and the journals aren't necessarily those, which policy-orientated academics or policy practitioners scan to keep abreast of significant developments and their impacts.
Australia and New Zealand Health Policy aims to focus on contemporary critiques and developments, and enable practitioners and academics to track health system and health services reform over time and across policy domain.
Special Editions
At various times, special editions or thematic series are produced on a particular topic of interest of AIHPS and partner organisations.
Current call for submissions:
A Future Workforce for Public Health and the Health of the Population For more information on the submission of articles please contact
