Risk Management and Healthcare Policy is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal focusing on all aspects of public health, policy and preventative measures to promote good health and improve morbidity and mortality in the population. Specific topics covered in the journal include:

Public and community health

Policy and law

Preventative and predictive healthcare

Risk and hazard management

Epidemiology, detection and screening

Lifestyle and diet modification

Vaccination and disease transmission/modification programs

Health and safety and occupational health

Healthcare services provision

Health literacy and education

Advertising and promotion of health issues

Health economic evaluations and resource management

Risk Management and Healthcare Policy focuses on human interventional and observational research. The journal welcomes submitted papers covering original research, clinical and epidemiological studies, reviews and evaluations, guidelines, expert opinion and commentary, and extended reports. Case reports will only be considered if they make a valuable and original contribution to the literature. The journal does not accept study protocols, animal-based or cell line-based studies.