Journal Guide

The Journal of Consumer Health on the Internet is the only professional peer-reviewed journal devoted to locating consumer health information via the Internet. In this journal librarians and health information providers describe programs and services aimed at helping patients and the general public find the health information they need. From the Editor: "Studies have shown that health information is one of the major reasons that people worldwide access the Internet. As the amount of health information on the Web increases exponentially, it becomes critical that librarians-including public and medical librarians-be knowledgeable about what is available online and be able to direct users to reliable, accurate, quality information." To that end, this valuable journal has been refocused on consumer health information programs and services-provided by librarians and health care institutions-that help guide consumers to quality health care information. Topics addressed by the journal include: evaluation and selection of Web-based consumer health resources descriptions of consumer health information programs relying on Web-based resources training consumers to find health information on the Web criteria for evaluating quality consumer health sites alternative and complementary health sites The Journal of Consumer Health on the Internet is an essential resource for libraries, persons, and institutions whose responsibilities include making health information available to the general public.Peer Review Policy: All manuscripts submitted are peer reviewed using a rigorous, double-blind process; reviewers are assigned based on subject expertise. The Editor accepts or rejects manuscripts based on the recommendation of two peer reviewers. Publication office: Taylor & Francis, Inc., 325 Chestnut Street, Suite 800, Philadelphia, PA 19106.

Conflict and Health is ready to receive manuscripts on all aspects of the interrelationship between health and conflict.

International Journal for Equity in Health is ready to receive manuscripts about influences on and interventions and inequities in health.

HS&R strives to become the journal of excellence and reference in health systems and reform. The journal’s mission is to create a global platform for sharing cutting edge knowledge, skills, and lessons in health systems and reform and to provide answers that matter for leaders, professionals, and students looking for research, data, information, with a focus on lessons for health systems and reform. Most importantly, HS&R will contribute to strengthening health systems and to improving care delivered to patients.

Health Risk & Society is an international scholarly journal devoted to a theoretical and empirical understanding of the social processes which influence the ways in which health risks are taken, communicated, assessed and managed.Public awareness of risk is associated with the development of high profile media debates about specific risks. Although risk issues arise in a variety of areas, such as technological usage and the environment, they are particularly evident in health. Not only is health a major issue of personal and collective concern, but failure to effectively assess and manage risk is likely to result in health problems.Health, Risk & Society aims to stimulate wider study of the issues by providing a focus for study and publication by academics and practitioners on the relationship between health, risk and society.Health, Risk & Society is an interdisciplinary and intersectoral journal. Contributions are welcomed from a variety of social sciences disciplines, including economics, sociology, psychology and management. The journal particularly encourages the submission of articles exploring the ways in which risk was handled at a variety of levels, e.g. in the community, within various organisations and at national and supranational levels. Articles should be accessible to a variety of audiences, including practitioners and policy-makers.ReadershipHealth, Risk & Society aims to bring together social scientists, practitioners and policy makers who have an interest in risk issues relating to health. These disciplines include; sociology, social policy, management, economics, political science, social and clinical psychology, anthropology, education, social and public health medicine, nursing, social work, law and psychiatry.Peer Review IntegrityAll research articles in this journal, including those in special issues, special sections or supplements, have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and anonymized refereeing by at least two independent referees.DisclaimerTaylor & Francis makes every effort to ensure the accuracy of all the information (the Content ) contained in its publications. However, Taylor & Francis and its agents and licensors make no representations or warranties whatsoever as to the accuracy, completeness or suitability for any purpose of the Content and disclaim all such representations and warranties whether expressed or implied to the maximum extent permitted by law. Any views expressed in this publication are the views of the authors and are not the views of Taylor & Francis.

Maternal and Child Health Journal offers an exclusive forum for advancing scientific and professional knowledge of the maternal and child health (MCH) field. Peer-reviewed papers address MCH practice, policy, and research, exploring such topics as MCH epidemiology, demography, and health status assessment; Innovative MCH service initiatives; Implementation of MCH programs; MCH policy analysis and advocacy and MCH professional development. Exploring the full spectrum of the field, Maternal and Child Health Journal is an important tool for practitioners as well as academics in public health, obstetrics, gynecology, prenatal medicine, pediatrics, and neonatology.Sponsors include the Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs (AMCHP), the Association of Teachers of Maternal and Child Health (ATMCH), and CityMatCH.

The Saudi Journal of Health Systems Research is a peer-reviewed, Open Access online journal dedicated to healthcare management. It is the official publication of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia ´s Ministry of Health and the Ministry’s voice to the global scientific community. The journal fosters an environment of research excellence to elevate scientific research in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. This journal welcomes papers that cover research, trends, and techniques in health systems and includes articles in hospital and healthcare management and policies, health economics, and digital health. In addition, papers covering multidisciplinary topics with impact on the health sector are welcome. Manuscripts on these topics can be submitted in the form of original research articles, case studies and reports, review articles, systematic reviews, discussions, guidelines, and brief reports. In this forum, clinicians and researchers can communicate their findings to a broader scientific community and contribute to the development of public health and well-being.

Health Expectations promotes critical thinking and informed debate about all aspects of public participation in health care and health policy, including:

• Patient-centred care and quality improvement

• Patients' participation in treatment decisions

• Public perceptions of health services

• Citizen involvement health care policy making and priority-setting

• Methods for monitoring and evaluating participation

• Empowerment and consumerism

• Patients' role in safety and quality

Health Expectations is a quarterly, peer-reviewed journal publishing original research, review articles and critical commentaries. It includes papers which clarify concepts, develop theories, and critically analyse and evaluate specific policies and practices. The Journal provides a multi-disciplinary and international forum in which researchers from a variety of backgrounds can present their work to other researchers, policy makers, health care professionals, managers and consumer advocates.

Keywords: Health Expectations promotes critical thinking and informed debate about all aspects of public participation in health care and health policy, including:

Women's Health Issues (WHI) is a peer-reviewed, bimonthly, multidisciplinary journal that publishes research and review manuscripts related to women's health care and policy. As the official journal of the Jacobs Institute of Women's Health, it is dedicated to improving the health and health care of all women throughout the lifespan and in diverse communities. The journal seeks to inform health services researchers, health care and public health professionals, social scientists, policymakers, and others concerned with women's health.Benefits to authorsWe also provide many author benefits, such as free PDFs, a liberal copyright policy, special discounts on Elsevier publications and much more. Please click here for more information on our author services.Please see our Guide for Authors for information on article submission. If you require any further information or help, please visit our support pages: http://support.elsevier.com

This journal seeks articles related to the economics of health and medical care. Its scope will include the following topics:Production of health and health services;Demand and utilization of health services;Financing of health services;Measurement of health;Behavioral models of demanders, suppliers and other health care agencies;Health behaviors and policy interventions;Efficiency and distributional aspects of health policy;and such other topics as the Editors may deem appropriate. Applications to problems in both developed and less-developed countries are welcomed.Benefits to authorsWe also provide many author benefits, such as free PDFs, a liberal copyright policy, special discounts on Elsevier publications and much more. Please click here for more information on our author services.Please see our Guide for Authors for information on article submission. If you require any further information or help, please visit our support pages: http://support.elsevier.com

Public Health Ethics is the first peer-reviewed international journal to focus on a systematic analysis of the moral problems in public health and preventive medicine. It contains original articles, reviews, and case studies about the nature of public health and related concepts (e.g. population, public, community, prevention); discussions of values in public health; and ethical issues in relation to all aspects of public health policy and practice. This includes normative issues in epidemiological research, health promotion, infectious diseases control, screening, population genetics, resource allocation, health care system reform, vaccinations, environmental and lifestyle factors relevant to health, equity, justice and global health. PHE combines theoretical and practical work from different fields, notably philosophy, law, and politics, but also epidemiology and the medical sciences. Contributors are particularly encouraged to discuss the practical impact of their work on public health policies. PHE is therefore an important resource for scholars and students in bioethics and public health, but also for professionals and policy makers.

Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP) is a monthly journal of peer-reviewed research and news published by the U.S. National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services. EHP's mission is to serve as a forum for the discussion of the interrelationships between the environment and human health by publishing in a balanced and objective manner the best peer-reviewed research and most current and credible news of the field. With an impact factor of 6.19, EHP is the top monthly journal in public, environmental, and occupational health and the second-ranked monthly journal in environmental sciences.The environmental health sciences include many fields of study and increasingly comprise a multidisciplinary research area. EHP publishes articles from a wide range of scientific disciplines encompassing basic research; epidemiologic studies; risk assessment; relevant ethical, legal, social, environmental justice, and policy topics; longitudinal human studies; in vitro and in vivo animal research with a clear relationship to human health; and environmental medicine case reports. Because children are uniquely sensitive to their environments, EHP devotes a research section specifically to issues surrounding children's environmental health.

International Health will publish original, peer-reviewed articles and reviews reflecting health care delivery and analysis in the field of global medicine and international health. It will be of particular interest to those tasked with the delivery of care to communities where resources are extremely limited.International Health is the sister publication to the Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene and an official publishing partner of The Lancet Global Health Network. It aims to bring together international scientific and public health experts to publish research which will change medical practice and add informed analysis and opinion to scientific and policy debates. It is committed to advancing health for all people around the world. As such it will be an indispensable resource for all those with an interest in international health issues.We particularly welcome papers which relate to the development of health care systems world wide including:• Social and economic aspects of disease, both communicable and non-communicable• Evaluation of disease control programmes• Health systems research and policy• Management and economics of healthcare.

Public Health Genomics is the leading international journal focusing on the timely translation of genome-based knowledge and technologies into public health, health policies, and health care as a whole. This peer-reviewed journal is a bimonthly forum featuring original papers, reviews, short communications, and policy statements. It is supplemented by topic-specific issues providing a comprehensive, holistic, and “all-inclusive” picture of the chosen subject. Multidisciplinary in scope, it combines theoretical and empirical work from a range of disciplines, notably public health, molecular and medical sciences, the humanities, and social sciences. In so doing, it also takes into account rapid scientific advances from fields such as systems biology, microbiomics, epigenomics, or information and communication technologies as well as the high potential of “big data” for public health.
What was until very recently no more than a vision for a new era of public health, in which advances in the “-omic” sciences would be integrated into strategies aiming at benefiting population health, has now become a response to the very pressing need for the development of effective personalized health care which is complementary to health protection and health promotion. The aim of Public Health Genomics is to facilitate a broad dialogue between academia, the private sector, and government bodies.

emotion dysregulation, neurobiology, co-occuring psychiatric disorders, personality disorder, treatment, animals models of BPD

Depression Research and Treatment is a peer-reviewed, open access journal that publishes original research articles, review articles, and clinical studies related to all aspects of depression.