Journal Title：Health Expectations

Health Expectations promotes critical thinking and informed debate about all aspects of patient and public involvement and engagement (PPIE) in health and social care, health policy and health services research including:

? 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 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 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.

《健康期望》提倡批判性思維和知情辯論，討論患者和公眾參與（PPIE）在健康和社會護理、健康政策和健康服務研究方面的所有方面，包括：

? 以人為本的護理和質量改進

? 患者參與疾病預防和管理決策

? 公眾對健康服務的看法

? 公民參與健康護理政策制定和優(yōu)先事項設定

? 監(jiān)測和評估參與的方法

? 賦權和消費主義

? 患者在安全和質量方面的作用

? 患者和公眾在健康服務研究中的作用

? 研究、醫(yī)療保健和政策的聯(lián)合制作（研究人員與患者和公眾合作）

《健康期望》是一份季刊，經(jīng)過同行評審，發(fā)表原創(chuàng)研究、評論文章和評論。它包括闡明概念、發(fā)展理論以及批判性分析和評估具體政策和實踐的論文。該期刊提供了一個跨學科的國際論壇，來自不同背景和專業(yè)知識的研究人員（包括 PPIE 研究人員）可以在此向其他研究人員、政策制定者、醫(yī)療保健專業(yè)人員、管理人員、患者和消費者權益倡導者展示他們的工作。

Health Expectations創(chuàng)刊于1998年，由Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd出版商出版，收稿方向涵蓋醫(yī)學 - 公共衛(wèi)生、環(huán)境衛(wèi)生與職業(yè)衛(wèi)生全領域，此刊是中等級別的SCI期刊，所以過審相對來講不是特別難，但是該刊專業(yè)認可度不錯，仍然是一本值得選擇的SCI期刊 。平均審稿速度 12周，或約稿 ，影響因子指數(shù)3，該期刊近期沒有被列入國際期刊預警名單，廣大學者值得一試。