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<i>Milbank Quarterly</i>

Milbank Quarterly

Academic journal

The Milbank Quarterly is a quarterly peer-reviewed healthcare journal covering health care policy. It was established in 1923 and is published by John Wiley & Sons on behalf of the Milbank Memorial Fund, an endowed national foundation funded by Elizabeth Milbank Anderson that supports research of issues related to population health and health policy.[1] It covers topics such as the impact of social factors on health, prevention, allocation of health care resources, legal and ethical issues in health policy, health and health care administration, and the organization and financing of health care.

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The Milbank Memorial Fund has historically funded controversial health care practices, including the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, in which African Americans were systematically and deceptively denied critical care for the benefit of the white scientific community. In June 2022, it apologized to descendants of the study’s victims for its the role in the study.[2]

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed by:[3]

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 4.911, ranking it 16th out of 108 journals in the category "Health Care Sciences & Services"[4] and 8th out of 88 journals in the category "Health Policy & Services".[5]

Previous titles

The journal was established in 1923 as The Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly Bulletin. In 1934 it was renamed The Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly, and in 1973 The Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly: Health and Society. It obtained its current name in 1986.

References

  1. [1]
    "The Milbank Memorial Fund". Retrieved 2009-02-08.
  2. [2]
    Reeves, Jay (11 June 2022). "New York fund apologizes for role in Tuskegee syphilis study". AP News. Retrieved 21 June 2022.
  3. [3]
    "The Milbank Quarterly: A Multidisciplinary Journal of Population Health and Health Policy - Journal Information". Retrieved 2009-02-08.
  4. [4]
    "Journals Ranked by Impact: Health Care Sciences & Services". 2020 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Science ed.). Thomson Reuters. 2021.
  5. [5]
    "Journals Ranked by Impact: Health Policy & Services". 2020 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Social Sciences ed.). Thomson Reuters. 2021.
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