New & Noteworthy: Sloan Helms New Health Economics Journal

15 May 2015 10:31AM

The American Journal of Health Economics (AJHE) today released its second issue online. This publication is unique because it provides a forum for in-depth health economics topics, which cannot be examined as fully by general economics journals. 

As the AJHE’s editor-in-chief and the organization’s president, Professor Frank Sloan best understands how impactful the journal could be. 

“Health policy is really growing tremendously as a field, and there’s a global concern about the growth of health care costs and efficiencies in quality of care,” Sloan said. “A lot of this is in the United States, and this is the first U.S.-based health economics journal. We hope to see a lot of discussion about U.S. health policy in the AJHE.”

The AJHE is owned by the American Society of Health Economists (ASHEcon) and housed in the Department of Economics at Duke University. The inaugural issue of the publication was released in February 2015.