Progress of international health policy: Bibliometric analysis based on CiteSpace

VernacularTitle:国际卫生政策研究进展——基于CiteSpace的文献计量分析
Author: Miaojie QI ; Yunque BO ; Youli HAN
Keywords: Health policy and services; Citespace; Bibliometric analysis
From: Chinese Journal of Health Policy 2017;10(7):6-12
CountryChina
Language:Chinese
Abstract: Objective: The main objective of this research paper is to analyze the research focus and trend in the health policy and services between 2010 and 2016, with a view to providing a reference for the research on health policy and service in China to tackle a number of challenges and opportunities for future studies.Methods: This article retrieved English literature about the Health Policy & Services from the Web of Science (2010-2016), and analyzed the records with Citespace by general analysis, word frequency and centrality.Results: A total of 22,716 articles were obtained.The three keywords with the highest frequency of word frequency were: care, quality of life and healthcare, and Quality of life had the highest centrality.Keywords could be divided into five clusters: health measurement;health factor;health intervention;medical insurance;health intervention evaluation.Conclusions: Foreign health policy research focused on health and health care;focusing on measuring the impact of health outcomes;and committed to improving the health and quality of life of the population.