Aims and scope
Discover Health Systems is part of the Discover journal series committed to providing a streamlined submission process, rapid review and publication, and a high level of author service at every stage. It is a multi-disciplinary, open access, community-focussed journal publishing results from across all fields relevant to health systems research.
Discover Health Systems takes a multidisciplinary approach to address systems-level research and discussions relating to health systems, services and informatics, reflecting health outcomes, including from business and health policy perspectives. The journal has a special focus on organisational management of health systems, health system-level integration of healthcare services, health informatics, funding of health systems, allocation of resources and innovative organisational models.
Our intended audience includes healthcare workers (medical, nursing and social care), clinical managers, business managers and administrators, policymakers (including politicians), engineers, economists and other professionals involved in health systems research. As a medically-focussed journal with an emphasis on collaboration we help facilitate communication between health outcome-focussed and business-focussed stakeholders.
Discover Health Systems particularly welcomes work relating to achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal of Good and Health Well-Being, and other related Sustainable Development Goals.
Topics
Discover Health Systems covers topics including (but not limited to) the following primary areas:
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National health systems
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Private health systems
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Integration of health informatics into health systems
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Capacity building within health systems
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Funding of health systems
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Health policy
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Health outcomes - patient/staff
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Human resources
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Operations management
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Healthcare facility safety and quality (performance)
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Sustainability
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Disaster planning and response
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National-level training, accreditation and regulation of healthcare workers or facilities
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Monitoring and performance of health systems
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Related research methodology
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Strategic management
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Digital health
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Healthcare finance
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Management of organizations
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Operating room and waiting list management
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Process management
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Value-Based Health Care
Discover Health Systems welcomes full-length Research articles as well as Brief Communications of empirical findings, Reviews, Perspectives, Comments, Case Studies, Registered Reports, and Data Notes from across the full range of disciplines concerned with systems-level research into health and healthcare. The journal also publishes guest-edited Topical Collections of relevance to all aspects of health systems and informatics. For more information, please follow up with our journal publishing contact.