AcademyHealth Publications: Journals

AcademyHealth’s Official Journals are Health Affairs and HSR. All members have the opportunity to subscribe to either or both of these journals at a 40 percent discount when you join or renew. Subscriptions include both print and online access. You also will receive periodic updates from the journals through AcademyHealth’s newsletters.

Consumer-Driven Health Care-Beyond Rhetoric with Research and Experience

Health Services Research (HSR) journal is pleased to offer a Special Issue on Consumer-Driven Health Care. Supported by funding from the Health Research and Educational Trust (HRET), this Special Issue is a compilation of articles and commentaries from the “Consumer Driven Health Care: Evidence From the Field” conference on September 15, 2003 in Washington D.C. Conference Co-Sponsors were The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Changes in Health Care Financing and Organization (HCFO) Initiative and The Commonwealth Fund. Guest Editors for this Special Issue are Carolyn M. Clancy and Anne K. Gauthier.

To order the print edition of this issue of Health Services Research or to subscribe to a full volume of the journal, please contact Blackwell
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New Common Statement on Prior Publication Policy Provides Guidance for Authors

The emergence of electronic publishing and the increasing number of reports and papers generated by organizations and agencies has resulted in the need to clarify what constitutes previous publication. Editors from seven journals that publish articles on health, health services, and health policy have collaborated to produce a policy statement regarding the publication of original work that has not previously been published. Journals currently using this statement include: