Abbreviated title (ISO 4) Milbank Q. Language English | Discipline Health policy Edited by Howard Markel | |
Former names The Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly: Health and Society, The Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly, The Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly Bulletin Publisher Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the Milbank Memorial Fund (United States) | ||
The Milbank Quarterly is a quarterly peer-reviewed healthcare journal covering health care policy. It was established in 1923 and is published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the Milbank Memorial Fund, an endowed national foundation funded by Elizabeth Milbank Anderson that supports research of issues related to health policy. 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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Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed by:
According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2011 impact factor of 5.620, ranking it first out of 76 journals in the category "Health Care Sciences & Services" and first out of 62 journals in the category "Health Policy & Services".
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.