JAMA Health Forum now peer-reviewed journal
2021-05-06
(Press-News.org) What The Editorial Says: JAMA Health Forum debuts this week as a peer-reviewed, open-access, online journal focused on health policy, health care systems, and global and public health. The journal has transitioned from an online health policy channel and is the newest member of the family of JAMA Network specialty journals. The editor of JAMA Health Forum is John Z. Ayanian, M.D., M.P.P., of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and the deputy editor is Melinda B. Buntin, Ph.D., of the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville, Tennessee.
Authors: John Z. Ayanian, M.D., M.P.P., of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, is the corresponding author.
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(doi:10.1001/jamahealthforum.2021.0847)
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