Aims and Scope
The mission of Annals of Health & Education Economics is to advance scientific research on the role of health and education in human development, economic growth, and social justice. Covered topics include:
- Health economics: healthcare system financing, equitable access to care, health insurance, hospital organization, pharmaceutical regulation, and prevention policies.
- Education economics: financing and efficiency of education systems, human capital, returns to education, educational inequalities, access policies, and curriculum reforms.
- Human capital and development: interactions between health, education, productivity, employment, and economic growth.
- Inequalities and social inclusion: gender, regional, and socioeconomic disparities in access to education and health; inequality reduction policies.
- Comparative public policies: analysis of health and education models across countries; reform comparisons and performance evaluation.
- Technologies and social innovation: role of digital innovations in health and education, telemedicine, e-learning, artificial intelligence, and educational platforms.
- Public health and health education: prevention, awareness, and the economic impact of health and civic education campaigns.
- Sustainable development and intergenerational equity: links between investments in health and education and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
- Applied behavioral economics: role of individual preferences, cognitive biases, and social norms in access to health and education.
- International and interdisciplinary comparisons: cross-country studies on the impact of health and education in developed, emerging, and developing economies.
This broad coverage makes the journal a privileged forum for publishing theoretical, empirical, quantitative, qualitative, and interdisciplinary research.