About International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare

Aims and scope

International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare (IJHRH) is an international, peer reviewed journal with a unique interdisciplinary and practical approach to promoting race equality, inclusion and human rights in all health and care settings.

The journal publishes double-anonymous peer-reviewed research papers of the highest standard, including case studies.

IJHRH aims include:

  • To explore what is currently known about discrimination and disadvantage with a particular focus on health and care settings
  • Push the barriers of the human rights discourse by identifying new avenues for healthcare practice and policy internationally
  • Create bridges between policymakers, practitioners and researchers
  • Identify and understand the social determinants of health equity and practical interventions to overcome barriers at national and international levels

Journal topics include (but are not limited to):

  • Human rights in health and care settings (core focus on applying human rights principles)
  • Race equality, inclusion, and discrimination in healthcare systems
  • Health inequalities and disadvantage, especially among vulnerable or marginalised populations
  • Social determinants of health and health equity
  • Public policy and healthcare practice from a human rights perspective
  • International and comparative healthcare systems and policies
  • Barriers to equitable healthcare access and interventions to overcome them
  • Healthcare ethics and human rights discourse
  • Evaluation of interventions and best practices in health and care
  • Experiences of service users and patient perspectives
  • Institutional, political, and structural influences on health rights
  • Implementation, accountability, and governance
  • Digital health, AI, and data justice
  • Workforce rights and organisational power
  • Intersectionality and structural inequality
  • Co‑production and community‑led knowledge
  • Crisis, emergency, and humanitarian health
  • Research ethics and knowledge justice

The journal welcomes papers which use varied approaches, including discussion of theory, comparative studies, systematic evaluation of interventions, analysis of qualitative data and study of health and care institutions and the political process.

Papers published in IJHRH should: 

  • Clearly demonstrate the implications of the research
  • Provide evidence-rich information
  • Provoke reflection and support critical analysis of both challenges and strengths
  • Share examples of best practice and ‘what works’, including user perspectives

IJHRH is a hugely valuable source of information for researchers, academics, students, practitioners, managers, policy-makers, commissioning bodies, social workers, psychologists, nurses, voluntary sector workers, service users and carers internationally.