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1 Health Econ. Pol'y & L. 1 (2006)

handle is hein.journals/hecpol1 and id is 1 raw text is: Health Economics, Policy and Law (2006), 1: 1-2 Printed in the United Kingdom © Cambridge University Press 2006 doi:10.1017/Si744133105001015 Editorial Health policy is one of the most debated and analysed areas of social policy internationally, and encompasses a multitude of seemingly disparate but, in fact, largely interrelated issues. For example, how should we motivate doctors to improve performance? What is 'performance', and how do we measure it? What is the impact of antitrust law on provider behaviour? How do we ensure that we attain the most benefit from our health care resources? What is 'benefit', why is it defined in the ways that it is, and how do we measure it? Can the implementation of World Trade Organization regulations produce legislation that favours public sector health care development? More broadly, what are the goals, institutions, policies, reforms, and effects of health care? Why do they take the forms that they do, and what forms should they take? What (if anything) can we learn by comparing health care systems? The list of questions is endless, but most have at least one thing in common: they can be subjected to economic, political, and legal analyses. Indeed, interna- tional trends in health care highlight the confluence of economics, politics, and legal considerations in the policy process, and efforts to encourage cross- disciplinary understanding are warranted. Health Economics, Policy and Law (HEPL), a new quarterly peer-reviewed journal, is intended to serve as a forum for scholarship on economic, political, and/or legal considerations in health policy. As such, the disciplinary focus of the journal is restricted to economics, political science, and/or law. HEPL is international in scope, accepts submissions on social care in addition to health care, and aims to bring currency, authority, and accessibility to the reporting of current research, issues, and debates. The journal will publish material ranging from original theoretical, methodological, and empirical papers, to arti- cles surveying the state of the art in specific areas. Since we envisage a cross-disciplinary, cross-sectoral, and cross-country read- ership, the journal's articles will be rigorous but mostly non-mathematical, and, in assessing submitted manuscripts, considerable emphasis is placed on both clarity of expression and on use of terminology. Manuscripts are also assessed on their research methods and/or conceptual reasoning, the strength of the economics/political science/legal content, and, where appropriate, their originality and policy relevance. The standards and style to which we aspire are reflected by the Milbank Quarterly and the Journal of Health Policy, Politics and Law. HEPL will publish four types of articles. Occasional guest editorials of up to 2,000 words will normally be published by invitation, although suggestions will be considered. Debate essays, in part a forum to discuss controversies and which will occasionally be accompanied by responses, have a word limit of

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