Forum for Health Economics & Policy

Objective
The Forum for Health Economics & Policy (FHEP) aims to promote research on the most pressing and timely issues in health economics and health policy. The journal showcases articles to advance our understanding of the economic and societal implications of health and health care, with a particular focus on the value of innovation ranging across medicines and other types of health technologies. Topics of special interest include the societal value of new medical technologies; pharmacoeconomics and generalized cost-effectiveness analysis (GCEA); revealed values and preferences for treatment; affordable care for aging populations; R&D investment and its externalities; policy challenges for health care innovators and investors; and market failures and potential solutions. FHEP’s ultimate objective is to promote better health, productivity, and well-being via more efficient resource allocation.

FHEP aims to bridge the gap between academic theory of market dynamics and how market participants – including employers, payors, providers, investors, regulators, and patients – make decisions. For example, why do insurance plans cover treatments that health economists assess as cost-ineffective? Why do investor perceptions of the impact of policy change often differ from those of academics?

To this end, the journal emphasizes an evidence-based approach to understand human behavior and assess social value and welfare, with the goal of informing policy decisions. And even then, FHEP approaches policy discussion with the recognition that the complexity of human society exceeds our best efforts to model its dynamics and that any policy may have unintended consequences that, if not predicted, should be rapidly surfaced so that the policy can be reassessed and potentially fixed.　

Topics

• Economics
• Political economics
• Biomedical research and the economy
• Aging and medical care costs
• Nursing
• Cancer studies
• Medical treatment
• Others related