Risk Management and Healthcare Policy

Aims and Scope

Editor-in-Chief: Dr Gulsum Kubra Kaya and Dr Mecit Can Emre Simsekler

Risk Management and Healthcare Policy is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access journal focusing on the management, governance, and policy dimensions of healthcare systems. The journal emphasizes evidence-based strategies to identify, assess, and mitigate risks that affect patient safety, healthcare quality, and population health outcomes.

The journal prioritizes research that informs decision-making, regulation, and strategic planning in healthcare organizations and public health systems. It does not consider manuscripts that are primarily clinical, biomedical, or focused on individual lifestyle or dietary interventions. Meta-analyses are no longer considered for publication and animal-based or cell line-based studies are not in scope.

Specific topics covered in the journal include: 

• Health system governance, regulation, and compliance
• Risk assessment, mitigation, and resilience in healthcare delivery
• Patient safety, quality improvement, and adverse event management
• Health policy design, evaluation, and implementation
• Public health risk management (e.g., pandemic preparedness, biosecurity, and emergency response)
• Legal, ethical, and economic aspects of healthcare risk and policy
• Emerging technologies in health policy and risk management (e.g., artificial intelligence, digital health tools, predictive analytics, and automation)
• Health technology assessment and innovation policy
• Data governance, privacy, and cybersecurity in health systems
• Occupational and organizational health risk management
• Health workforce planning and system resilience
• Resource allocation, cost–risk trade-offs, and financial risk management in healthcare
• Communication, trust, and risk perception in public health

Risk Management and Healthcare Policy welcomes studies evaluating policy or system-level interventions, observational analyses of healthcare risks and outcomes, and implementation research addressing safety, quality, and governance. The journal publishes original research, reviews, evaluations, guidelines, expert commentary, and extended reports. Case reports will be considered only if they make a valuable and original contribution to healthcare policy or system-level risk management.

Studies based solely on publicly available datasets must make a substantive and novel contribution to the field and demonstrate validation through replication or complementary analysis.

Updated 8 June 2026