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Call for Manuscripts on Health Education and Promotion for the Journal of Midwifery & Women’s Health

The Journal of Midwifery & Women’s Health is soliciting manuscripts for the 2013 continuing education theme issues on Health Education and Promotion. We invite submissions that address optimizing women’s health and reproductive health outcomes. Potential topics include:

· Health education: beyond patient handouts

· Use of social media in health education and promotion

· Promoting healthy habits

· Health promotion recommendations by age group

· Obesity

· Cardiovascular disease prevention

· Diabetes prevention

· Cancer screening

· Health disparities

· Types of psychotherapy/counseling

· Exercise

· Smoking cessation

· Substance abuse

· Sexual health

· Contraception, particularly long-acting reversible contraception (LARC)

· Health promotion for postmenopausal women

· Management of unintended pregnancy

· Preconception care

· Interconception care and/or birth spacing

· Genetics

· Prevention of birth defects

· Environmental health

· Preventing teratogenic exposures during pregnancy

Other relevant topics are welcome. All types of articles will be considered, and descriptions of the article types can be found on the next page. The deadline for initial manuscript submission is August 1, 2012.

Please send your proposed topic, type of article, and contact information to JMWH Editor-in-Chief Frances E. Likis, CNM, NP, DrPH, FACNM, at flikis@acnm.org.

Call for Papers: Journal of Functional Foods in Health and Disease

Editors-in-Chief:

Danik M. Martirosyan, PhD, UT Southwestern Medical Center, USA, Undurti N. Das, MD, UND Life Sciences, USA

The Journal of Functional Foods in Health and Disease (FFHD) is a peer-reviewed open access journal that covers various aspects of functional foods and chronic diseases such as cardiovascular, obesity, diabetes, cancer and/or scientific policies related to functional foods. The journal is designed to keep members of the Functional Food Center / Functional Food Creation International Institute and the public up to date on the latest advances in functional foods for the prevention and management of chronic diseases. The journal will strive to develop concepts that help to understand the mechanisms of disease and creation of specific functional and medicinal foods in the prevention and management of various diseases

This is an existing serial which has been published under the title Functional Foods in Health and Disease (FFHD) since December 3, 2010.