Women in Health Services: Cost and Resource Allocation 2021

We are delighted to present the inaugural Frontiers in Health Services 'Women in Health Services” series of article collections.

At present, less than 30% of researchers worldwide are women. Long-standing biases and gender stereotypes are discouraging girls and women away from science-related fields. Science and gender equality are, however, essential to ensure sustainable development as highlighted by UNESCO. In order to change traditional mindsets, gender equality must be promoted, stereotypes defeated, and girls and women should be equally represented in the proportion of researchers worldwide.

Therefore, Frontiers in Health Services is proud to offer this platform to promote the work of women researchers, across all fields of health services research.

The work presented here highlights the diversity of research performed across the breadth of health services research in our Cost and Resource Allocation section and presents advances in theory, experiment, and methodology with applications to compelling problems.

Please note: To be considered for this collection, the first or last author should be a researcher who identifies as a woman.

Topic Editor Anita Patel is the founder and Director of Anita Patel Health Economics Consulting LTD. The other Topic Editors declare no competing interests with regard to the Research Topic subject.

Keywords: women, cost and resource allocation

Important note: All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.