HEALTH EXPECTATIONS (ISSN: 1369-6513)

Description

Health Expectations promotes critical thinking and informed debate about all aspects of public participation in health care and health policy, including:
Patient-centred care and quality improvement
Patients' participation in treatment decisions
Public perceptions of health services
Citizen involvement health care policy making and priority-setting
Methods for monitoring and evaluating participation
Empowerment and consumerism
Patients' role in safety and quality
Health Expectations is a quarterly, 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 a multi-disciplinary and international forum in which researchers from a variety of backgrounds can present their work to other researchers, policy makers, health care professionals, managers and consumer advocates.