Overview

Health Expectations is an open access, 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.

  • 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 an open access, 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.

Abstracting and Indexing Information

  • Abstracts in Anthropology (Sage)
  • Academic Search (EBSCO Publishing)
  • Academic Search Alumni Edition (EBSCO Publishing)
  • Academic Search Elite (EBSCO Publishing)
  • Academic Search Premier (EBSCO Publishing)
  • CINAHL: Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature (EBSCO Publishing)
  • Current Contents: Clinical Medicine (Clarivate Analytics)
  • Current Contents: Social & Behavioral Sciences (Clarivate Analytics)
  • Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
  • Health Source Nursing/Academic (EBSCO Publishing)
  • Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition (Clarivate Analytics)
  • Journal Citation Reports/Social Science Edition (Clarivate Analytics)
  • MEDLINE/PubMed (NLM)
  • PsycINFO/Psychological Abstracts (APA)
  • PubMed Dietary Supplement Subset (NLM)
  • Science Citation Index Expanded (Clarivate Analytics)
  • SCOPUS (Elsevier)
  • Social Science Premium Collection (ProQuest)
  • Social Sciences Citation Index (Clarivate Analytics)

Health Expectations deposits all articles in PMC (PubMed Central)