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Call for Papers on the Topic of Governance Within a Commissioned Service for a Special Issue of the Clinical Governance: An International Journal

Clinical Governance: An International Journal is seeking contributions for a special issue on the theme of governance within a commissioned service, to be published towards the end of 2012 or early in 2013.

The theme is inspired by policy changes within the English NHS, but the editors believe that these changes need to be informed by experience from other settings and would welcome contributions from all international settings, where similar reforms leading to the establishment of a health and care marketplace have taken place.

The Journal editors are delighted to welcome David Colin-Thome to be the editor of this special issue, and to the editorial advisory board of CGIJ.

We are seeking articles on topics such as:

• The governance of commissioning services
• Monitoring and measuring commissioned services
• The nature of the commissioner/provider relationship
• Enabling new providers to meet the demands of commissioners
• Meeting customer expectations within the commissioning cycle
• The relationship between governance and innovation
• Commissioning and governance across health and social care

All submissions will be subject to CGIJ's usual reviewing policy. If you would like to join our panel of reviewers please contact agillies@emeraldinsight.com.

The editors would welcome enquiries from potential authors in advance of submission on suitability and scope.

Key Dates
31 Jan 2011 Call announced
30 June 2012 Latest date at which submissions will be considered for the special issue.
31 August 2012 Latest date by which papers accepted in principle after review will be returned to the authors for revisions for inclusion in the special issue
31 October 2012 Latest date by which papers accepted for inclusion in the special issue must be returned by authors with revisions completed
Late 2012/early 2013 Special Issue published

The Editors will be happy to publish papers that meet the reviewing criteria but miss the deadline at a later date in a standard issue.

Call for Papers on the Topic of Nursing Informatics in the 21st Century for the Canadian Journal of Nursing Research

Deadline: July 15 2012

Canadian Journal of Nursing Research
CALL FOR PAPERS: Nursing Informatics in the 21st Century
March 2013 (Volume 45 No 1)

Health information systems (e.g., nursing information systems, electronic health record systems, personal health record systems, telehealth/telenursing systems) are being implemented globally to improve the quality, efficiency, and safety of patient care. Increasingly, nurses are involved in the design, development, implementation, evaluation, and maintenance of health information systems to support patient care, nursing, and the work of health professionals.

For this issue of CJNR we invite papers that focus on issues in nursing informatics and health/biomedical informatics as they relate to nursing. We welcome reports on completed qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-methods research, literature reviews, systematic reviews, and syntheses. Papers on theoretical, methodological, and current trends in nursing informatics are also welcome. Examples of topics include the following: competencies in nursing terminologies; competencies in nursing informatics; implementation of electronic health record systems and its effect on nursing work; patient-nurse use of personal health record systems; disease management systems; systems usability as it relates to nursing personnel and nursing care; impacts of systems on nursing workflow; decision-support systems for nurses; importance of health and information literacy; and mobile health and nursing. We welcome submissions from nurses (e.g., nursing informatics specialists, nurse administrators), health informatics specialists, and nursing/health and biomedical informatics researchers whose focus is nursing informatics. Manuscripts describing international approaches to nursing informatics issues are welcome.

Guest Editors: Dr. Elizabeth Borycki and Dr. Noreen Frisch
Submission deadline: July 15, 2012

Please submit papers online Using CJNR E-journal Press at http://cjnr.msubmit.net

For assistance: cjnr.nursing@mcgill.ca

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of the Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association: Recovery-Oriented Practice in Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing

Guest Editors:
Kris A. McLoughlin,DNP, APRN, PMH-CNS, BC, CADC-II
Mary D. Moller DNP, ARNP, APRN, PMHCNS-BC, CPRP, FAAN

DEADLINE for article submission: AUGUST 1, 2012

In a 2005 Mental Health Declaration for Europe, the World Health Organization identified the need to “design and implement…mental health systems that promote…recovery.” According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s (SAMHSA) National Consensus Statement, Recovery is cited as the “single most important goal” for the mental health service delivery system (2006). Most recently, on December 22, 2011 the SAMHSA announced a new working definition of recovery as “A process of change through which individuals improve their health and wellness, live a self-directed life, and strive to reach their full potential”. Four major dimensions that support a life in recovery include health, home, purpose, and community along with 10 guiding principles: hope; person-driven; holistic; peer support; relationship and social networks; culturally-based and influenced; importance of addressing trauma; involving friends, family, community strengths, and responsibility; respect; and, the need for many pathways for recovery to occur.

The American Psychiatric Nurses Association (APNA) is one of five national participants in a SAMHSA initiative to transform the concepts of recovery from a set of beliefs to recovery-oriented nursing practices. As a profession, psychiatric-mental health nursing focuses on the person with the disease or disorder (not the disease or disorder itself). We assist people, through recovery-oriented interventions to adapt to their world and find personal meaning and purpose in their own real-life experiences as community members. This special issue will focus on the state of the science: How Psychiatric Nursing is understanding, integrating and developing recovery-practices and programs; and, how these practices affect outcomes.

Manuscript submission may include, but are not limited to:

Innovative recovery-oriented program development
Development, implementation, and evaluation of recovery-oriented practices or components of recovery practice
First-person accounts of recovery practice and related outcomes

Data-based manuscripts, quality improvement studies, state of the science / systematic literature reviews preferred. All manuscripts should be translational in nature by including key practice points for psychiatric nurses that can be implemented in the institutional or community healthcare setting.

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of the International Journal of Biomedical Engineering and Technology: Using Technology to Facilitate Chronic Disease Management

Guest Editors:
Khin Than Win, University of Wollongong, Australia
Nilmini Wickramasinghe, RMIT University, Australia

Chronic disease continues to be one of the leading causes of death and economic loss in most countries today. Hence, it has become a central problem for healthcare and many are looking for solutions.

Early detection and prevention of chronic disease is one of the preferred strategies for reducing the incidence of chronic disease and address escalating cost issues. It has been widely documented that assisting chronic disease management through information technology tends to facilitate better health outcomes. We are therefore seeing several health IT projects being initiated and successfully supporting chronic disease management.

This special issue aims to host a discussion and discourse on the possible applications of IS/IT (information systems/information technology) to facilitate better chronic disease management.

Subject Coverage

Suitable topics include but are not limited to:

Facilitating standardisation via including care plans and guidelines for health information systems and developing decision support systems for assisting healthcare providers' decision making

Technology for delivery of care, e.g. artificial pancreases, implants, telemedicine, radiology, smart devices such as insulin pumps and implants

Electronic health records; health information systems; computerised guidelines; prevention; patient education; care and assistance for elderly people; lifestyle modifications such as physical activities, nutrition, weight management and mental health

Design and development of portals, communication platforms and/or the role of online social networks

Applications for mobile solutions to facilitate monitoring and/or management

Specific technology solutions to address better monitoring and management of asthma, diabetes, congenital heart disease, arthritis, chronic pain and obesity

Notes for Prospective Authors

Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. (N.B. Conference papers may only be submitted if the paper was not originally copyrighted and if it has been completely re-written).

All papers are refereed through a peer review process. A guide for authors, sample copies and other relevant information for submitting papers are available on the Author Guidelines page.

Important Dates

Papers due: 20 October, 2012

Review results: 31 January, 2013

Final paper due: 20 April 2013

Editors and Notes

You may send one copy in the form of an MS Word or PDF file attached to an email (details in Author Guidelines) to the following:

Dr. Khin Than Win
University of Wollongong
Faculty of Informatics
Northfields Avenue
Wollongong, NSW 2522
Australia
Email: win@uow.edu.au

Prof. Nilmini Wickramasinghe
Epworth Chair Health Information Management
RMIT University
College of Business
GPO Box 2476
Melbourne, VIC 3001
Australia
E-mail: nilmini.wickramasinghe@rmit.edu.au

Please include in your submission the title of the Special Issue, the title of the Journal and the names of the Guest Editors

Call for Papers: Health Policy and Technology

Health Policy and Technology (HPT), a new journal from the Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine (FPM), has been launched in March 2012 as a cross-disciplinary journal, which will focus on past, present and future health policy and the role of technology in clinical and non-clinical national and international health environments. HPT is published on the FPM's behalf by Elsevier, a major international scientific, technical and medical publisher (see the Elsevier press release about the new journal).

The FPM continues to publish its first international publication, the Postgraduate Medical Journal, launched in 1925. HPT provides a further excellent way for the FPM to continue to make important national and international contributions to development of policy and practice within medicine and related disciplines. The aim of the FPM in establishing this new international journal is to publish relevant, timely and accessible articles and commentaries to support policy-makers, health professionals, health technology providers, patient groups and academia interested in health policy and technology.

Topics covered by HPT will include

- Health technology, including drug discovery, diagnostics, medicines, devices, therapeutic delivery and eHealth systems
- Cross-national comparisons on health policy using evidence-based approaches
- National studies on health policy to determine the outcomes of technology-driven initiatives
- Cross-border eHealth including health tourism
- The digital divide in mobility, access and affordability of healthcare
- Health technology assessment (HTA) methods and tools for evaluating the effectiveness of clinical and non-clinical health technologies
- Health and eHealth indicators and benchmarks (measure/metrics) for understanding the adoption and diffusion of health technologies
- Health and eHealth models and frameworks to support policy-makers and other stakeholders in decision-making
- Stakeholder engagement with health technologies (clinical and patient/citizen buy-in)
- Regulation and health economics

For more information about the new journal go to: http://www.healthpolicyandtechnology.org

Call for Papers for a Special Section of Translational Behavioral Medicine: Practice, Policy, Research: Smartphones, Sensors, and Social Networks: A New Age of Health Behavior Change

Submission Deadline November 30, 2012

For submission information: http://www.springer.com/medicine/journal/13142

Traditional health behavior change interventions have long been limited by high expense, patient burden, and poor adherence. As health professionals, our access to intervene upon patients’ behavior is constrained by current models of health care which limit care provision to face-to-face visits provided on a weekly schedule or less frequently. Limited access to patients limits our ability to gain an accurate understanding of the antecedents and consequences of behavior, and to intervene in the moments when patients most need help. Computing technology including mobile phones, sensors, and online social networks – by being available in real time – are being explored as ways to enhance our ability to understand health behavior and more effectively intervene upon it. mHealth, the application of mobile technology to health, has reached its tipping point. A rapidly growing body of research evidence demonstrates the efficacy of mHealth approaches across a wide range of conditions, populations, and settings. mHealth has also attracted a parallel explosion of industry attention. An extremely diverse group of companies are capitalizing on the mHealth market, which is projected to reach $23 billion in revenues by 2017. Sensing technologies are also rapidly being developed to gather behavioral, physiological, and contextual data that can then be used to predict behavior or deliver “just-in-time” interventions. Finally, online social networking, a service that allows individuals to interact and communicate with other users without geographical, physical, or logistical barriers has now been used for health surveillance, disseminating information and innovations, and health behavior intervention. The potential of these technologies to impact health behavior change has yet to be fully realized. The purpose of this special issue is to draw papers from academicians, clinicians, and industry professionals who are developing, testing, and/or researching the efficacy of these technologies for health behavior change.

Given that opportunities for academic-industry communication and collaboration have been too infrequent, we have seen relatively limited translation of evidence-based mHealth approaches into the real-world settings that are largely served by industry. We suspect that collaboration between industry and the research community might accelerate the growth of the mHealth market and improve the health of patients and populations. There are important barriers to such collaborations which we hope are explored and discussed further in this special issue. We hope to attract high quality contributions relating to the opportunities and challenges associated with stimulating academic-industry partnerships and creating evidence-based technology-based approaches to health behavior change. We acknowledge differences in the type of data that is collected by academics and industry professionals and aim to be a forum for both types of data, while acknowledging the strengths and limitations of each. Traditional research reports are sought, but also case studies characterizing real world translation efforts, implementation challenges, and academic-industry partnerships are strongly encouraged. Additionally, synopses of practical tools and strategies, applications, and approaches are of interest. Selected manuscripts will be published together with commentaries in this special section of Translational Behavioral Medicine.

Editors of the Special Section:
Sherry Pagoto, PhD, University of Massachusetts Medical School
Gary Bennett, PhD, Duke University

Editor-in-Chief:
Bonnie Spring, PhD, Northwestern University

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of the Journal of Health & Productivity: Health and Productivity on the Workplace: the Relationship between Payer, Provider and Policy Maker in Oncology and Hematology

The deadline for submission is September 1, 2012.

The Journal of Health & Productivity (JHP) published by InPress Media Group for the Institute for Health and Productivity (IHPM) publishes current research and debate on all aspects of employee health and productivity.

The Journal of Health & Productivity aims to be the leading multidisciplinary publication offering peer-reviewed high quality original research and review articles with real relevance to payers, providers, policy makers and employers. The Journal provides corporate decision makers critically examined evidence applicable to their own issues concerning employee health and its impact on productivity.

Led by Editor-in-Chief William B. Bunn III, MD, JD, MPH, vice president of Health, Safety, Security and Productivity at Navistar International, the Journal’s Editorial Advisory Board of leading academic researchers and industry experts ensures that the publication is a must-read for researchers and practitioners concerned with the health and productivity of the workforce.

Reaching more than 12,000 senior executives via print and more than 9,500 electronically, the Journal of Health & Productivity heavily penetrates the market it serves, including corporate employee coalitions, business associations, health plans, providers and government agencies.

The Journal of Health & Productivity (JHP) publishes:

Peer-reviewed research articles on all aspects of employee health and productivity;
Practical advice via in-depth case studies, presenting simple practical solutions to employee health and productivity problems
Real-life implications for the individual, the employer, and public health systems in general
Policies, processes, systems and governance issues related to cost-effective health and productivity programs for employers.

Call for papers: Oncology & Hematology Special
The Journal of Health & Productivity (JHP) is planning to advance Journal of Health & Productivity further by publishing a special peer-reviewed issue addressing the topics relevant to the employer/payer and provider relationship in oncology and hematology.

Based on ongoing response from its members, the IHPM recognizes that there is an unfilled need for authoritative, peer reviewed, information about health and productivity related to oncology and hematology.

The Journal of Health & Productivity is seeking original work to facilitate understanding of the often divergent perspectives of payers, providers, policy makers and employers, presenting relevant – must-read – information that will enhance decisions made by providers, payers, and policy makers.

The Journal of Health & Productivity will be addressing unique oncology and hematology topics relevant to executives concerned about the health and productivity of their employees.

The overall goal of the Journal is to improve employee healthcare in the oncology and hematology.

The editors of the Journal of Health & Productivityare seeking original research articles and informed commentary on the following topics:

Cancer in the workplace: prevalence and economic impact

Measuring the economic burden of cancer

The impact of cancer and hematological disorders on workplace health and productivity

The psychosocial impact of cancer and hematological disorders and the effect on employee productivity

Lost productive time associated with cancer and hematological disorders

Measuring outcomes and quality of care and the impact on employee productivity

Cost of new therapeutic agents and impact on patients, employees, providers and employers

Effects of innovative models of care, care delivery, and quality of care on employee health and productivity

Effects of healthcare reform on cancer care – and how this impacts employers and employees

Methodologies for accountability of payers and providers in oncology/hematology and the effect on employers and employees

Effect on employee health and productivity of health promotion and care delivery models in oncology/hematology

Improving functional health of employees with cancer and their impact on total labor costs

Impact of new economic models on oncology care – and the effect on employee productivity

Effects of healthcare reform on cancer care on employee health and productivity

Impact of plan design on patient access to appropriate therapies

The benefit of integrating evidence-based guidelines into practice on employee health and productivity

Innovative collaboration between payers, providers, policy-makers and the effect on workplace health and productivity

Advances in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer and the impact on employee health and productivity

Cancer survivorship, late treatment-related side effects (physical, psychosocial and cognitive abnormalities) and employee health and productivity

How to submit
Preference will be given to high quality original research and review articles. Contributors are encouraged to report on current research, clarifying the practical implications on employee health and productivity of their work in order to increase understanding and provide a platform for further research and development.

All submitted papers will undergo the standard peer-review process required by Journal of Health & Productivity. Due to space constraints, please limit the text to 4500 words and the graphic elements to a combined total of 6 tables and figures. Final decisions regarding inclusion in this special issue rest solely with the Editors.

Please send your manuscript to:

Peter Hofland, PhD
Publisher and Executive Editor Journal of Health & Productivity
InPress Media Group, LLC
4960 South Gilbert Road, Suite 1286
Chandler, AZ 85249
editor@inpressmediagroup.com

Call for Papers for a Special Thematic Issue of the Journal of Social Work in End-of-Life and Palliative Care: Chronic Illness at the End of Life

Deadline: July 15, 2012

The Journal of Social Work in End-of-Life and Palliative Care invites manuscripts for a special thematic issue on chronic illness at the end of life.

Appropriate topics may be related to a range of medical diagnoses: Cancer, ESRD, Alzheimer’s, COPD, HIV, etc. and challenges encountered and opportunities presented at the end stages of the disease process. Issues could pertain to the needs of individuals diagnosed with the illness, caregivers (family and professional), health care systems, and policy. Also manuscripts could address: challenges faced by people facing multiple illnesses; challenges, innovations, and interventions in care of persons with chronic illness at EOL; pain management/palliative care issues; and the role of the social worker and the interdisciplinary teams consideration in care of persons with chronic illness at EOL. Manuscripts could focus on a single illness or compare issues/interventions across illnesses. Also, a range of practice settings, hospice, hospital, nursing homes, assisted living could serve as a focus for manuscripts. As always, international perspectives and cross-cultural research are welcome.

Please address questions to Editor-in-Chief, Ellen L. Csikai, PhD at ecsikai@sw.ua.edu<mailto:ecsikai@sw.ua.edu>.

Manuscripts for this issue are due by July 15, 2012 and must be submitted online to ScholarOne:
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/wswe

Editor: Ellen L. Csikai, LCSW, MPH, PhD Professor, School of Social Work
The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL

MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSIONS
Journal of Social Work in End-of Life and Palliative Care receives all manuscript submissions electronically via the ScholarOne Manuscripts website located at: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/wswe. ScholarOne Manuscripts allows for rapid submission of original and revised manuscripts, as well as facilitating the review process and internal communication between authors, editors and reviewers via a web-based platform. ScholarOne Manuscripts technical support can be accessed via http://scholarone.com/services/support/. If you have any other requests please contact the journal’s editor at ecsikai@sw.ua.edu.

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of the Journal of Media Psychology: The Role of Media in Health Communication

Deadline for submissions is June 30, 2012.

Guest Editors:
Dagmar Unz (Communication in Social and Economic Contexts, Berlin University of the Arts, Germany)
Bettina Friedrich (Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, UK)

The Journal of Media Psychology is calling for papers for a special issue about the role of media in health communication.

Media is a powerful tool to communicate knowledge and attitudes regarding diverse health issues, and can therefore impact on health behavior as well as understanding and appraisal of health issues. Media can be used to educate general and specific target audiences about health issues, link health workers to the public, connect people with similar health issues and persuade audiences to adopt new behaviors.

This special issue aims to enhance understanding of the role of media in health communication processes. A broad range of topics are welcome, although suggested topics should shed light on the role of media in health communication from a psychological perspective. A variety of media applications at a diversity of populations, technologies, content and contexts can and should be considered. Papers can explore how meanings about health issues are generated, investigate how health issues and coping with them are portrayed in different forms of media, explore how media use affects the physical, mental, or behavioral health, explore the ways in which diverse audiences engage with media and negotiate health issues. We invite papers in but not limited to the following areas:

media audiences and health communication
popular media and health images effects
using media campaigns for health promotion
using the Internet as a source of health information
using entertainment media / electronic games for health issues
using electronic games, as Wii or Kinect, for sports / physical well-being

Manuscript preparation and submission: Manuscripts should be prepared in accordance with the journal’s author guidelines (available on the journal’s website at http://www.hogrefe.com/periodicals/journal-of-media-psychology/). Papers should be clearly labelled as submissions intended for this special issue and must be submitted through the journal’s online manuscript management system (http://www.editorialmanager.com/jmp/).

All submissions will be anonymously reviewed, using the normal Journal of Media Psychology review criteria while also taking into account the contribution of the paper to understanding the role of media in health communication.

Deadline for submissions is June 30th, 2012

Informal enquiries on the special issue can be made to

Dagmar Unz (dagmar.unz(at)udk-berlin.de) or to the
Editorial Office (contact-jmp(at)uni-koeln.de).

Call for Submissions: Special Issue of the Journal of HIV/AIDS & Social Services: HIV Care and Prevention in Adolescents and Emerging Adults

Adolescence is a time often marked by experimentation, development of one’s racial and sexual identity, risk taking, and vulnerability. Consequently, emerging adulthood can be characterized as a period of continued change in terms of home, school, work, and relationship domains. Adolescents and young adults (ages 13 to 29) currently account for the largest percentage (39%) of new HIV infections in the United States compared to other age groups. HIV incidence in this group disproportionately affects young gay and bisexual men and young African Americans. Behavioral factors found to be associated with HIV infection in young persons include early age at sexual initiation, older sex partners, history of sexual abuse, sexually transmitted infections, and substance use. Providers may face challenges in delivering developmentally and culturally appropriate interventions for increasing numbers of young persons entering care systems, and providing treatment regimens that are compatible with diverse lifestyles.

The Journal of HIV/AIDS & Social Services is inviting the submission of papers for a special issue on HIV Care and Prevention in
Adolescents and Emerging Adults.

Papers to be considered for review for this special issue should be submitted beginning April 15, 2012, through August 15, 2012.

Topics of interest include:

. Emergent findings in psychosocial approaches to HIV care and prevention in adolescents and young adults.
. Identifying and addressing special needs of adolescents and emerging adults living with HIV/AIDS, including transitioning to adult HIV care.
. Innovative methods in engaging and retaining young persons in prevention and treatment programming.
. Correlates of adolescents and emerging adults’ sexual risk behavior amenable to service delivery or intervention.
. Developmental approaches to working with adolescents and emerging adults living with HIV/AIDS.
. Innovative programmatic approaches relating to issues of gender, race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, and disability.
. Peer-directed programming targeting adolescents and emerging adults living with HIV/AIDS.
. Emergent issues in the intersection of biomedical and psychosocial approaches to HIV/AIDS in adolescents and young adults, including treatment-as-prevention and preexposure prophylaxis.

Douglas Bruce, PhD, MSW
DePaul University
Dexter Voisin, PhD
University of Chicago
Special Edition Editors

The Journal of HIV/AIDS & Social Services receives all manuscript submissions electronically via their ScholarOne Manuscripts website located at: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/whiv. ScholarOne Manuscripts allows for rapid submission of original and revised manuscripts, as well as facilitating the review process and internal communication between authors, editors, and reviewers via a web-based platform. ScholarOne Manuscripts technical support can be accessed via http://scholarone.com/services/support/. If you have any other requests, please contact the journal’s Managing Editor at mikebass@uic.edu.

When you enter your manuscript on ScholarOne, please click on the option that you intend it to be considered for the Special Edition: HIV Care and Prevention in Adolescents and Emerging Adults.