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.
