About this journal

Since 2012, the Journal of Management & Marketing in Healthcare has been published under the new title International Journal of Healthcare Management.

The International Journal of Healthcare Management serves all those directly involved in, or concerned with, the organisation, delivery, marketing and management of healthcare services, at a strategic and operational level. It provides a peer-reviewed forum for the publication of briefings, discussion, applied research, case studies, expert comment and analysis on the key issues affecting the management and marketing of this sector.

Healthcare providers exist in a turbulent political and social environment with increasing demands being placed on them to pursue equality, quality, responsiveness, efficiency and affordability. Effective management and marketing of this sector is becoming an increasingly important area for the industry to address. As such, the Journal's scope addresses issues of concern to healthcare service providers – whether in the private, statutory or voluntary sectors – and seeks to cover the management and marketing of the full range of healthcare services.

The Journal's content addresses the diverse range of disciplines that healthcare services management and marketing draws upon and its international scope and aims give special focus to management issues arising from the free movement of patients, e-health, personalised medicine, and the related new challenges of tailoring treatment modelling to the individual patient. Topics of interest also include:

• new and emerging health policies
• cost-effective and efficient delivery of services
• healthcare marketing
• social marketing
• healthcare systems development and reforms
• healthcare related behaviours and compliance
• disease management
• information and communication technology
• electronic patient records
• funding and finance
• health staff issues
• public community
• media relations

Editor-in-Chief:

• Professor Dr. Hamido Fujita

Editor Emeritus:

• Prof Paulo Moreira (Qianfoshan Hospital, First Affiliation Hospital Shandong Medical University, Jinan, China)

Associate Editors:

• Prof. Enrique Herrera Viedma (Vice-President for Research and Knowledge Transfer, University of Granada, Spain)
• Rajendra Udyavara Acharya (Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Singapore)
• Tao Wu (President of Shanghai University of Medicine and Health Sciences, China)

Editorial Board:

• Abolaji Joachim Abiodun (Department of Business Management, Covenant University, Ota, Ogun, Nigeria)
• Sajed M Abukhader (College of Business Administration, Prince Sultan University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia)
• Selim Ahmed (World University of Bangladesh, Bangladesh)
• Professor Ole Berg (Professor of Health Administration, University of Oslo, Norway)
• Professor Ivy Lynn Bourgeault (Health Sciences Program and Associate Director, University of Ottawa, Canada)
• Jennifer Bremner (Director, European Health Management Association, Belgium)
• Dr Lawton Burns (Director, Centre for Health Management & Economics, Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, USA)
• Professor Reinhard Busse (Department of Health Care Management, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany)
• Haldor Byrkjeflot (Department of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo, Norway)
• Maria Stella Castro Lobo (Epidemiology and Evaluation Service, University Hospital Clementino Fraga Filho/HUCFF-UFRJ, Cidade Universitária, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
• Professor Douglas A Conrad (Department of Health Services Director, Center for Health Management, University of Washington, USA)
• Professor Mike Dent (Health Care Organisation, Faculty of Health, Staffordshire University, UK)
• Professor Brian Edwards (Emeritus Professor of Health Care Development, University of Sheffield; Chair, ATM Consulting, UK)
• Usman Ehsan (School of Business and Economics, University of Management and Technology, Sialkot Campus, Pakistan)
• Dr Neil Goodwin (Visiting Professor of Leadership Studies, Manchester Business School and the University of Durham, UK)
• Dr Nick Goodwin (Senior Fellow, King’s Fund, UK)
• Dr Ellen Kuhlmann (Institute for Economics, Labour and Culture, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Germany)
• Djamel Laouisset (Professor, Faculty of Business, Alhosn University, UAE)
• Dr Patrick Mordelet (Ministry of Health, France, and Cooperation Agency for Healthcare Services Development, France)
• Peter Nyasulu (School of Health Sciences, Monash University, Ruimsig, Johannesburg, South Africa)
• Ivana Petrovic (University of Belgrade, Serbia)
• Natraj Ravichandran (Department of Management Studies, Jamia Hamdard - Hamdard University, New Delhi, India)
• Dr Sandeep Reddy (School of Medicine, Deakin University, Victoria, Australia)
• Dr Magda Rosenmöller (IESE Business School, University of Navarra, Spain)
• Dr Thomas G Rundall (Professor of Health Policy & Management, University of California, Berkeley, USA)
• Professor Nilgun Sarp (Department of Health Service Management, Ankara University, Turkey)
• Joseph S Schultz (Department of Industrial Economics and Technology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), and Sør-Trøndelag University College (HiST), Trondheim, Norway)
• Professor Ali Selamat (Dean of Malaysia Japan International Institute of Technology (MJIIT), Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
• Dr Karen Staniland (Senior Lecturer/Open Learning Lead, School of Nursing, University of Salford, UK)
• Dr Filip Studnicka (Department of Physics, University of Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic)
• Andrew Ward (Managing Principal, GE Healthcare Performance Solutions, UK)
• Professor Zeshui Xu (Business School, Sichuan University, China)