Progress of international health policy: Bibliometric analysis based on CiteSpace / 中国卫生政策研究

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.