JHAE Additional Information

Types of Submissions

The Journal offers a platform to advance knowledge and practice in healthcare management and health policy education. It welcomes a variety of contributions, including original research, case studies, teaching innovations, program management insights, commentaries, and reviews of educational resources. Submissions highlight the field’s diversity of scholarship and practice, supporting both academic research and the professional development of educators and practitioners. Therefore, submissions are accepted in the following formats:

Research: Offers a platform for publishing research studies, literature reviews, and scholarly discussions on current issues related to healthcare management and health policy education. 

Case Studies: Provide a focused, evidence-based look at a specific educational challenge or practice within a specific course, program, or school. They should describe the problem, explain the teaching method or intervention used, and show measurable results for students or the program. They should also link findings to theory and suggest ideas for improving curriculum and teaching methods.

Teaching Tips and Tools: Provides an opportunity for authors to submit brief reports on applied educational techniques and practices that are valuable for student learning.

Program Management Issues: Focuses on day-to-day management of graduate and undergraduate programs.

Distinguished Contributions: Solicited/nominated content based on relevant invited addresses, lectures, and reports that prominent educators or practitioners deliver.

Correspondence: Provides an opportunity for contributors to react to articles previously published in the Journal or for the submission of brief opinions addressing current issues and challenges facing the field. 

Resource Reviews: Solicited critiques of educational materials, including books, training exercises, simulations, software, and other materials relevant to health administration education.

Commentary: An opinion-based article that provides a discussion of a broad topic within the journal's scope of healthcare management and health policy education. Articles offer additional context or present a different perspective, aiming to stimulate thoughtful debate within the academic community.

Contributions to the Research, Case Studies, Teaching Tips and Tools, and Program Management Issues sections are subject to peer review. The decision to publish depends on the importance of the findings to the field, the quality of the presentation, the validity of the methods, the appropriateness of the conclusions, and the timeliness of the topics. All other submissions are reviewed by the Journal’s editors or editorial board members.
 
Manuscripts will be accepted for publication as long as they have not been published or are not planned for publication elsewhere. All manuscripts are acknowledged upon receipt. Manuscripts published in the journal become the property of the Association of University Programs in Health Administration and may not be reproduced without written permission.

Manuscript Preparation

All submissions except Correspondence must be submitted via the JHAE Online Submission Gateway.
 
PLEASE NOTE THAT ALL submissions must conform to editorial style guidelines for the preparation of manuscripts as set out in Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (7th ed).
 
Additional information and resources to assist authors in preparing submissions that meet formatting and style requirements for JHAE can be found at APA Style.
 
Please note: All manuscripts that fail to adhere to the following guidelines will be returned to the author.
 
  • All identifying information must be removed from the manuscript and included only in the cover letter and title page.
  • Manuscripts, including references and tables, should be typed double-spaced on 8 ½" x 11" paper with pages numbered consecutively. Figures and tables should be interpretable independent of the text.
  • All manuscripts must be submitted as a Microsoft Word document using 12 point sized Times New Roman font.
  • All figures, graphs and other artwork should be created in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint or JPG and should not exceed 4 ½" x 7". Please do not use fills, italic type, underlines or bold text anywhere in the tables or in the body of the text.
  • If a manuscript contains material reproduced from other sources, written permission from the author and publisher to use such material must accompany the manuscript.
  • Authors must supply the following information on the manuscript’s TITLE PAGE: full author name, highest academic degree, professional title and institution, and a current address, phone number, and email address. One author must be identified as the corresponding author. Acknowledgement of funding sources for the research and the use of AI-assisted technologies should be listed and described. If none, so state. Provide one to six keywords describing the manuscript. 
  • Word Count: Original contributions (research and case studies) should be 3,000-6,000 words in length, submissions to the Teaching Tips and Tools and Program Management Issues sections should be a maximum of 2,500 words in length, and Commentaries are limited to 1,500 words in length. Word count is exclusive of references, tables, and figures, and must include a 250-word limited abstract. 
All manuscripts are subject to copy editing. The Journal of Health Administration Education is copyrighted and may not be reproduced without permission.

Copyright/Reprint Requests


All requests to reprint or photocopy material from the Journal of Health Administration Education must be in writing and submitted to

AUPHA Copyright Permissions
1730 Rhode Island Ave NW, Suite 810
Washington DC, 20036

or emailed to aupha@aupha.org.

The request must include the requestor's name, organization, address, phone number, email address; article title; volume; issue of Journal article; author's name; page numbers; and purpose for reprinting. Incomplete requests will not be processed.

If approved, the reprint should include a reference to the fact that the work is drawn from a “previously published article in ......... “ and provide the citation for the Journal, issue, etc.