Journal Focus

Immortalis Journal of Health Law and Public Policy (IJHLPP) is an interdisciplinary scholarly journal focusing on the development, implementation, and critical examination of legal frameworks, public policies, and governance systems in the healthcare sector. The journal provides a platform for academic discussion and research on the intersection of law, public health, medical practice, human rights, ethics, and public administration. It seeks to advance scholarly understanding of how legal institutions, regulatory mechanisms, and public policy decisions shape healthcare systems, protect individual rights, and address emerging challenges in healthcare delivery at national and international levels.

IJHLPP encourages contributions that offer critical perspectives, theoretical developments, empirical evidence, and practical insights into contemporary health-related legal and policy issues. Particular attention is given to research that strengthens legal accountability, promotes equitable access to healthcare, improves institutional governance, and supports the development of responsive, inclusive, and sustainable health systems.

Scope of the Journal

The journal welcomes scholarly contributions addressing a broad range of interconnected topics, including but not limited to the following areas:

1. Health Law and Legislation

Research examining the legal foundations, principles, and regulatory frameworks governing healthcare systems and medical practices. Topics include health legislation, healthcare regulation, legal reform, medical law, statutory interpretation, legal enforcement, and the development of national and international health-related legal instruments.

2. Health Policy and Public Governance

Studies concerning the formulation, implementation, evaluation, and reform of public policies in the healthcare sector. This area includes health policy analysis, public administration, regulatory governance, institutional accountability, intergovernmental relations, policy implementation, and evidence-based decision-making in healthcare.

3. Patients' Rights and Human Rights in Healthcare

Research addressing the protection and fulfillment of human rights within healthcare systems, including the right to health, patient autonomy, informed consent, healthcare accessibility, equality and non-discrimination, vulnerable populations, privacy, confidentiality, and legal protection in the delivery of healthcare services.

4. Medical Law and Professional Accountability

Studies exploring the legal responsibilities and professional obligations of healthcare practitioners and institutions. Relevant topics include medical liability, medical malpractice, professional negligence, medical disputes, disciplinary proceedings, professional licensing, standards of medical practice, and legal accountability in healthcare services.

5. Medical Ethics and Bioethics

Scholarly discussions on ethical and legal dilemmas arising from medical practice, biomedical research, and healthcare decision-making. Topics include clinical ethics, bioethical principles, end-of-life decisions, reproductive health, organ transplantation, genetic technologies, research ethics, and the relationship between ethical principles and legal obligations.

6. Public Health Law and Health Security

Research examining legal and policy approaches to population health protection, disease prevention, health promotion, and public health emergencies. This scope includes infectious disease control, epidemic and pandemic governance, health emergency preparedness, environmental health regulation, public health surveillance, and the legal dimensions of national and global health security.

7. Healthcare Systems, Institutions, and Financing

Studies addressing the legal, administrative, and policy dimensions of healthcare institutions and service delivery. Topics include hospital governance, healthcare quality and safety, health insurance, healthcare financing, universal health coverage, public and private healthcare partnerships, institutional management, and accountability in healthcare organizations.

8. Digital Health, Technology, and Data Protection

Research investigating the legal, ethical, and regulatory implications of technological developments in healthcare. This includes telemedicine, electronic health records, artificial intelligence in healthcare, digital health platforms, health information systems, personal health data protection, cybersecurity, digital consent, and the governance of emerging medical technologies.

9. Pharmaceutical Law and Medical Product Regulation

Studies concerning the regulation, distribution, safety, and legal oversight of pharmaceuticals, vaccines, medical devices, and other healthcare products. Relevant subjects include pharmaceutical governance, drug approval and licensing, product liability, intellectual property rights, medicine accessibility, regulatory compliance, and patient protection.

10. Comparative, International, and Global Health Law

Research examining health law and public policy from comparative, transnational, and international perspectives. This area includes international health regulations, global health governance, cross-border healthcare, comparative healthcare systems, international human rights instruments, regional health cooperation, and the influence of international legal frameworks on domestic health policies.

 

Research Approaches and Manuscript Contributions

IJHLPP welcomes diverse methodological approaches that contribute to the advancement of scholarship in health law and public policy. These include normative and doctrinal legal research, socio-legal studies, empirical legal research, comparative legal analysis, qualitative and quantitative policy research, interdisciplinary investigations, and evidence-based evaluations of healthcare governance and regulation.

The journal considers original research articles, systematic and narrative review articles, conceptual and theoretical papers, comparative studies, case studies, and policy analyses. Submissions are expected to demonstrate academic rigor, originality, methodological clarity, and meaningful contributions to the relevant field of study.

While the journal encourages interdisciplinary perspectives, manuscripts should maintain a clear connection to health law, public policy, healthcare governance, or their regulatory and ethical implications. Purely clinical, biomedical, or technical studies without a substantive legal, policy, governance, or ethical dimension generally fall outside the journal's scope.

Through this focus and scope, Immortalis Journal of Health Law and Public Policy (IJHLPP) seeks to foster interdisciplinary scholarship, encourage critical engagement with contemporary healthcare challenges, and contribute to the development of effective legal frameworks and public policies that advance equitable, accountable, and sustainable healthcare systems worldwide.