Deadline: 17 August 2014
The Pan American Journal of Public Health is inviting paper submissions in the main theme ‘The New Women’s Health Agenda in the Region of the Americas’. The special issue of the journal published by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) will be published in March 2015. The issue aims to identify and examine the main challenges that demographic, social, and epidemiological changes will pose to women’s health in the Region of the Americas in the coming years.
Key Components
- Sexual health: services availability, sexual diversity, sexually transmitted infections, HIV/AIDS, health of sexual workers.
- Reproductive health: maternal health, mortality, severe maternal morbidity, abortion, caesarean section, and human reproduction.
- Women’s health and life cycles.
- Access, quality, and safety of health services.
- Gender-based violence.
- Chronic non-communicable diseases and women’s health, with special emphasis on diabetes mellitus and gynecological cancer, as well as the adaptation of health services to better respond to needs for promotion, prevention, care and rehabilitation of chronic diseases in the various regional contexts.
- Mental health: prevalence, relationship to women’s living conditions, access to diagnosis and treatment, cultural acceptability of mental health services, and stigmatization of patients.
- Women’s occupational health, health problems related to integration into both formal and informal job markets and to work done at home, as well as responses of health and social security systems.
- Studies on the inter-sectionality of social determinants and how women’s health is affected, with emphasis on social class, ethnicity, gender and generation.
- Knowledge gaps that impede the formulation of adequate women’s health policy or its implementation in the field.
Eligibility Criteria
- Articles can be submitted in English, Spanish or Portuguese. Authors are encouraged to submit manuscripts written in their native tongue.
- The manuscript’s title should be clear, precise, and concise and include all the necessary information to identify the scope of the article.
- Authors must register their full name, institutional affiliations, city and country, and contact information while submitting a manuscript.
- Original research articles or systematic reviews must be accompanied by a structured abstract of approximately 300 words, divided into the following sections: (a) Objectives, (b) Methods, (c) Results, and (d) Conclusions.
Note: Articles should be submitted online (Submit a manuscript). A letter of introduction should indicate that the paper is being submitted for consideration for publication in the special issue on “The New Women’s Health Agenda in the Region of the Americas”, March 2015.
For more information, please visit Call for Papers.
