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The journal covers research, methods, and concepts related to the financing, organization, delivery, evaluation, and outcomes of health services. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 3.402, ranking it 18th out of 88 journals in the category "Health Policy" [1] and 38th out of 108 in "Health Care ...
BMC Health Services Research is abstracted and indexed in PubMed, MEDLINE, Chemical Abstracts Service, EMBASE, Scopus, CINAHL, Current Contents, and CAB International.The journal is included in the Web of Science and according to the Journal Citation Reports has a 2018 impact factor of 1.932.
Health services research (HSR) became a burgeoning field in North America in the 1960s, when scientific information and policy deliberation began to coalesce. [1] Sometimes also referred to as health systems research or health policy and systems research (HPSR), HSR is a multidisciplinary scientific field that examines how people get access to health care practitioners and health care services ...
The International Journal of Health Services is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering health policy. It was established in 1971 and is published by SAGE Publications . The current editors-in-chief are Carles Muntaner (University of Toronto, Canada, The Johns Hopkins University, USA) and Joan Benach (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain ...
In rural areas, health centers are often understaffed, have low levels of supplies, and cannot perform the same procedures as other health centers located in urban areas. [8] In South Africa, 44% of the population, which live in rural areas, are only served by 12% of the country's physicians. [ 8 ]
Health services play a major role in health equity. Health inequities stem from lack of access to care due to poor economic status and an interaction among other social determinants of health. The majority of high quality health services are distributed among the wealthy people in society, leaving those who are poor with limited options.
Social needs, environmental factors and barriers to accessing health care that are unaddressed could lead to worse health outcomes for people with lower incomes. [ 42 ] [ 43 ] Additionally, residents of impoverished communities are at increased risk for mental illness , chronic disease , higher mortality , and lower life expectancy .
Access to healthcare and preventive health services is unequal, as is the quality of care received. A study conducted by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) revealed health disparities in the United States. In the United States, elderly adults (>65 years old) received worse care and had less access to care than their younger ...