《衛生政策》旨在成為探討和討論衛生政策問題的工具，特別是旨在加強衛生政策研究人員、立法者、決策者和其他與執行衛生政策有關的專業人員之間的溝通。該期刊鼓勵提交原始的、基于經驗的、比較性的或全球性的研究。為了實現該期刊的目標，鼓勵作者以非技術性的風格寫作，這對健康政策實踐者和其他學科的專家來說是可以理解的。

Health Policy is intended to be a vehicle for the exploration and discussion of health policy issues and is aimed in particular at enhancing communications between health policy researchers, legislators, decision-makers, and other professionals concerned with implementing health policy. The journal encourages the submission of original, empirically based, comparative and/or global studies. In order to achieve the journal's objectives, authors are encouraged to write in a non-technical style which is understandable to health policy practitioners and specialists from other disciplines.