Overview

Aims and Scope

Health Care Science is a high-quality, peer-reviewed, open access journal, which aims to provide a platform for the researchers, scholars, administrators, and innovators to share their research in the quality, evaluation, and technology of healthcare service delivery, healthcare management, and healthcare policy on a scientific basis.

We promote and disseminate high-quality Original Articles, Reviews, Short Communications, Brief Reports, Commentaries, News and Views, Editorials-Invited only and Practices and Policies.

The preference will be given to the articles based on quantitative methods, with emphasis on specific healthcare settings, have impact on real-world operation and policy making, and about emerging hot topics in healthcare. Currently, Health Care Science is published bi-monthly.

Academic Sections

1. Health policy and medical ethics
This section includes policy interpretation, expert opinions, and letters on policies, standards, and ethical considerations in healthcare setting, especially in the fast-developing frontiers of medical applications.

2. Healthcare evaluation and health economics
This section covers the evaluation of the quality, safety, performance, efficiency, and optimization in the health system, including hospitals, medical personnels, health services, as well as research using health economics methods to evaluate and compare medical resource planning, allocation, and other topics in health spending, insurance and coverage.

3. Public health management
This section highlights the public health prevention, responsiveness, and management of major diseases such as cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, mental illness, and emerging outbreaks.

4. Management of medical technologies and medical devices
This section involves the discussion of regulation, legislation, ethical considerations and other management aspects of medical technology and clinical applications, and also covers new development in medical applications in the form of new devices and equipment.

5. Medication use management
This section pertains to medication use from prescribing, ordering, dispensing, administration, to monitoring. Related topics such as drug-resistance situations will also be included.

6. Data science and health informatics
This section focuses on the application of quantitative methods of data science and health informatics to discover, solve, improve problems in healthcare management. Topics of interests include real-world big data, artificial intelligence, telemedicine, 5G application, data and information security.

7. Healthcare management in low and middle income countries (LMIC)
This section covers research and opinions in countries with limited resources in medical care and health system.

8. Medical Education
This section uncovers the latest and impactful research in healthcare education that includes clinical education, curriculum development, distance learning, CME (Continuing Medical Education) and assessment from leading researchers in the field of health care science.

Indexing information:

  • Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
  • Emerging Sources Citation Index (Clarivate Analytics)
  • PubMed (NLM)
  • SCOPUS (Elsevier)
  • Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics)

Health Care Science deposits all articles in PMC (PubMed Central).