Focus and Scope

Indonesian Health Justice Review publishes original and rigorous scholarship examining the intersection of health, law, justice, human rights, ethics, governance, and public policy related to health justice. The journal welcomes interdisciplinary, theoretical, empirical, comparative, socio-legal, and policy-oriented research that contributes to a deeper understanding of health systems, health inequalities, and the legal and institutional dimensions of health and healthcare.

The journal particularly welcomes research relevant to Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia, the Global South, and comparative international contexts, while maintaining a broad international scholarly orientation.

1. Health Law and Legal Regulation

  • Health law and legal theory
  • Regulation of healthcare systems
  • Patient rights and healthcare law
  • Medical liability and professional responsibility
  • Informed consent and medical decision-making
  • Healthcare contracts and legal relationships
  • Regulation of healthcare professionals
  • Pharmaceutical and medical-device regulation
  • Health insurance regulation
  • Legal aspects of public health interventions

2. Health Justice and Health Equity

  • Health inequality and health disparities
  • Equitable access to healthcare
  • Distribution of health resources
  • Socioeconomic determinants of health
  • Geographic and regional health inequality
  • Health and poverty
  • Health equity and social inclusion
  • Structural discrimination in healthcare
  • Vulnerable and marginalized populations
  • Justice in healthcare allocation

3. Human Rights and the Right to Health

  • Right to health
  • Health and human dignity
  • Equality and non-discrimination
  • Patient autonomy and bodily integrity
  • Privacy and confidentiality
  • Reproductive and sexual health rights
  • Disability rights and healthcare
  • Children's health rights
  • Rights of elderly populations
  • Human rights-based approaches to health policy

4. Public Health Governance and Policy

  • Public health governance
  • Health policy and regulation
  • Health administration and public institutions
  • Universal health coverage
  • Health financing and resource allocation
  • Public health accountability
  • Transparency and integrity in healthcare
  • Health-sector corruption and institutional governance
  • Evidence-informed health policy
  • Health system reform

5. Bioethics and Medical Ethics

  • Bioethics and health justice
  • Medical ethics
  • Clinical decision-making and ethical dilemmas
  • Informed consent
  • End-of-life care
  • Reproductive ethics
  • Organ transplantation and allocation
  • Genetic technologies and ethical governance
  • Research ethics
  • Ethical governance of emerging health technologies

6. Healthcare Access and Social Protection

  • Access to essential healthcare
  • Health insurance and social protection
  • Universal health coverage
  • Financial barriers to healthcare
  • Out-of-pocket healthcare expenditure
  • Healthcare affordability
  • Social health protection
  • Rural and remote healthcare access
  • Healthcare access for marginalized communities
  • Health system responsiveness

7. Health, Gender, and Vulnerable Populations

  • Gender and health inequality
  • Women's health and reproductive justice
  • Maternal and child health from a justice perspective
  • Disability and healthcare inclusion
  • Elderly populations and healthcare rights
  • Children and healthcare protection
  • Migrant and refugee health rights
  • Indigenous and local communities
  • Socioeconomically disadvantaged populations
  • Discrimination in healthcare

8. Digital Health, Data, and Emerging Technologies

  • Digital health governance
  • Telemedicine and healthcare regulation
  • Artificial intelligence in healthcare
  • Health data governance
  • Medical data privacy and protection
  • Digital health inequality
  • Algorithmic decision-making in healthcare
  • Biotechnology and health regulation
  • Genetic data and genomic governance
  • Technology, healthcare access, and justice

9. Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology, and Access to Health Technologies

  • Pharmaceutical regulation
  • Access to essential medicines
  • Medicine affordability and health equity
  • Intellectual property and public health
  • Pharmaceutical innovation and public interest
  • Biotechnology and regulatory governance
  • Vaccines and equitable access
  • Medical technologies and distributive justice
  • Drug safety and accountability
  • Global health technology governance

10. Public Health Emergencies and Global Health Justice

  • Pandemic governance
  • Public health emergency regulation
  • Emergency powers and human rights
  • Health crisis management
  • Vaccine equity
  • International health governance
  • Global health inequalities
  • Cross-border health governance
  • Public health preparedness
  • Legal and ethical dimensions of health emergencies

11. Environmental Health and Climate Justice

  • Environmental determinants of health
  • Climate change and health
  • Environmental health inequality
  • Pollution and public health
  • Environmental regulation and health rights
  • Climate-related health vulnerabilities
  • Environmental justice and healthcare
  • Public health consequences of environmental degradation
  • Sustainable health systems
  • Climate adaptation and health governance

12. Health Economics and Economic Justice

  • Health economics and equity
  • Healthcare financing
  • Health expenditure and distributive justice
  • Economic barriers to healthcare
  • Health insurance and financial protection
  • Economic evaluation of health policies
  • Resource allocation in healthcare
  • Healthcare markets and regulation
  • Pharmaceutical economics and access
  • Economic determinants of health inequality

13. Health, Society, and Political Economy

  • Political economy of health
  • Health and social inequality
  • State–market relations in healthcare
  • Privatization and commercialization of healthcare
  • Health institutions and political power
  • Social determinants of health
  • Community participation in health governance
  • Civil society and health advocacy
  • Health policy and political institutions
  • Health and democratic governance

14. Indonesian and Southeast Asian Health Justice

The journal particularly encourages scholarship examining health justice in Indonesia and Southeast Asia, including:

  • Indonesian health law and healthcare regulation
  • Indonesian health policy and governance
  • Universal health coverage in Indonesia
  • Healthcare inequality and regional disparities
  • Patient rights and medical accountability
  • Health financing and social protection
  • Indigenous and local communities' health rights
  • Environmental health and resource-related health impacts
  • Digital health and healthcare regulation
  • Comparative health governance in ASEAN

15. Comparative and International Health Justice

The journal welcomes comparative, cross-national, and international research examining how different legal, political, economic, and institutional systems address questions of health equity, healthcare access, human rights, regulation, governance, and justice.

Comparative studies involving different healthcare systems, legal traditions, regions, or governance models are particularly encouraged when they generate insights relevant to wider international scholarship.

Methodological Scope

Indonesian Health Justice Review welcomes diverse methodological approaches appropriate to the research question, including:

  • Doctrinal and normative legal research
  • Socio-legal research
  • Empirical legal studies
  • Quantitative research
  • Qualitative research
  • Mixed-methods research
  • Comparative legal and institutional analysis
  • Health policy analysis
  • Health systems research
  • Institutional and governance analysis
  • Case studies and comparative case studies
  • Historical and archival research
  • Survey and interview-based research
  • Systematic and scoping literature reviews
  • Data-driven and computational approaches

The journal emphasizes methodological transparency, research ethics, appropriate research design, analytical rigor, and clear articulation of scholarly contribution.

Types of Contributions

The journal considers:

  • Original research articles
  • Theoretical and conceptual articles
  • Empirical research articles
  • Socio-legal studies
  • Comparative studies
  • Systematic and scoping literature reviews
  • Health policy research articles
  • Methodological contributions
  • Scholarly review essays

All submissions must demonstrate originality, academic rigor, ethical research practices, meaningful engagement with relevant scholarship, and a clear contribution to international academic discourse.

Out of Scope

The journal generally does not consider manuscripts that:

  • focus exclusively on clinical diagnosis, treatment, or biomedical experimentation without a substantive connection to law, justice, ethics, governance, policy, or health equity;
  • primarily report laboratory, pharmaceutical, or clinical findings without broader implications for health justice;
  • are purely descriptive accounts of healthcare institutions or programs without analytical contribution;
  • focus exclusively on health management or administration without meaningful engagement with governance, justice, policy, rights, or institutional accountability;
  • present advocacy or normative claims without rigorous scholarly analysis; or
  • lack meaningful engagement with relevant academic literature and established theoretical or methodological frameworks.

The journal retains the discretion to determine whether a manuscript demonstrates sufficient alignment with its academic mission, focus and scope, methodological standards, and expected scholarly contribution.