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Call for Chapters: Cloud Computing Applications for Quality Health Care Delivery

Editors

Dr. Anastasius Moumtzoglou (“P. & A. Kyriakou” Children’s Hospital, President of the Hellenic Society for Quality & Safety in Healthcare, Greece);

Dr. Anastasia Kastania (Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece)

Proposals Submission Deadline: May 30, 2013

Full Chapters Due: August 30, 2013

Submission Date: November 30, 2013

For release in the Advances in Medical Technologies and Clinical Practice (AMTCP) Book Series

The Internet, having its roots in telephony applications in the early 1990s, is often referred to as “The Cloud.” By the turn of the millennium, the Internet was referred to as broadband, and the term “in the cloud” was highly desired. Telephone utilities were investing in “The Cloud” for switching and routing the appropriate connections for phone calls, faxes, live feeds, and signals. Then, around the middle of the decade, Computational Cloud Services, called “Cloud Computing,” was firmly in the vocabulary as a way to describe what the user was doing: accessing computing services in the cloud.

At the beginning of the decade, companies began building their websites in such a way that users could utilize their services exclusively through the use of a browser. Shortly, through the use of more powerful technologies, “in the cloud” applications became commonplace. By the middle of the decade, most leading corporations with a strong Web presence had reasonable and reliable operation of their services exclusively “in the cloud.”

The “Cloud” represents a fundamental change in the use of IT services, which involves a shift from owning and managing the IT system to accessing IT systems as a service. The term Cloud Services, a distinct terminology from outsourced IT hosting, comes from the fact that the Internet has often been depicted as a “Cloud.” Cloud Services have been defined as the services that meet the following criteria:

Consumers neither own the hardware on which data processing and storage happens, nor the software that performs the data processing.
Consumers have the ability to access and use the service at any time over the Internet.
As a result, the definition of Cloud Services is twofold. The first part pertains to the ownership of the actual hardware and software that is used to perform data storage and data processing, while the second part refers to the client’s ability to access the service remotely when it needs to use it.

On the other hand, as definitions evolved, Cloud Computing denoted the influence of cloud, and implied the user experience moving away from personal computers to a “cloud” of computers. In this context, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) defined Cloud Computing as “a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction”. This cloud model is composed of five essential characteristics, three service models, and four deployment models. Essential characteristics, according to NIST, include on-demand self-service, broad network access, resource pooling, rapid elasticity, and measured service. Service Models include Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), while deployment models include the Private cloud, the Community cloud, the Public cloud, and the Hybrid cloud.

Moreover, the research firm IDC described Cloud Computing as “an emerging IT development, deployment and distribution model, enabling real-time delivery of products, services and solutions over the Internet.” It also defined Cloud Services as “Consumer and Business products, services and solutions that are delivered and consumed in real-time over the Internet.” Finally, analyst firm Gartner defined Cloud Computing as “a model of computing in which scalable and flexible IT-enabled capabilities are delivered as a service to external customers using Internet technologies.”

As far as healthcare is concerned, the trend appears to be irreversible. Software applications and information once in the realm of a local computer or a local server are now in the sphere of the public Internet. Private health information once confined to local networks is migrating onto the Internet. Patients voluntarily grant access to their health records, while the collection and management of this data is entirely legal. Microsoft and Google are two notable examples of companies following the accelerating likelihood of placing, once restricted and private health records, “in the cloud.” Their initiatives hold the attention timing and force convergence of events if we consider the “Transforming Healthcare Through IT” and “Enabling Healthcare Reform Using Information Technology” initiatives.

Objective of the Book

The book will provide an overview of cloud technologies that might affect quality in healthcare. The proposed book intends to provide a compendium of terms, definitions, and explanations of concepts, processes, and acronyms. Additionally, it will present chapters (each chapter consisting of 7,000-10,000 words) authored by leading experts, offering an in-depth description of key terms and concepts related to the demystification of healthcare quality in the Cloud.

Target Audience

The prospective audience includes undergraduate and extended degree programs students, graduate students of health care quality and health services management, executive education and continuing education, health care managers and health professionals.

Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

Healthcare Cloud computing and Web Services

Definition, features and types of cloud services in healthcare

Adoption of cloud services and quality in healthcare

Benefits and drawbacks of cloud services in healthcare

Cloud technologies and quality in healthcare

Cloud-based systems for healthcare information technology and quality in healthcare

Cloud Perspective for HIPAA and HITECH

Interoperability

Privacy in Healthcare Cloud Computing

High Performance Computing in the Healthcare Cloud

Information Assurance and Security in Cloud Computing

Characteristics of Cloud-based Healthcare Organisations Cloud-based EMRs and quality in healthcare

Cloud-based medical practice management applications and quality in healthcare

Cloud-based patient portals and quality in healthcare

Cloud-based ePrescription systems and quality in healthcare

Cloud-based Laboratory solutions and quality in healthcare

Mobile Cloud Computing and quality in healthcare

Mobile Multimedia-Cloud Computing

Cloud healthcare simulation

Autonomic Clouds in Healthcare

Submission Procedure

Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before May 30, 2013, a 2-3 page chapter proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by June 15, 2013 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by August 30, 2013. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project.

Publisher

This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the “Information Science Reference” (formerly Idea Group Reference), “Medical Information Science Reference” and “IGI Publishing” imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com. This publication is anticipated to be released in 2014.

Important Dates:

May 30, 2013: Proposal Submission Deadline

June 15, 2013: Notification of Acceptance

August 30, 2013: Full Chapter Submission

October 30, 2013: Review Results Returned

November 30, 2013: Final Chapter Submission

February 15, 2014: Final deadline

Editorial Advisory Board

Vahe A. Kazandjian, Johns Hopkins University, USA

Dimitris Koutsouris, National Technical University of Athens, Greece

Athina Lazakidou, University of Peloponnese, Greece

Ales Bourek, Masaryk University, Czech Republic

Kathleen Abrahamson, Purdue University, USA

George Bohoris, University of Piraeus, Greece

Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word document):

Dr. Anastasius Moumtzoglou
“P. & A. Kyriakou” Children’s Hospital
Thivon & Levadias, 11527 Athens, Greece
Tel.: +302132009822 • GSM: +306974558870
E-mail: anas1@hol.gr

Dr. Anastasia Kastania
Athens University of Economis and Business
Patission 76 Str, 10434 Athens, Greece
Tel: +30-210-8203158, Fax: +30-210-8203157, GSM: +306944546208
E-mail: ank@aueb.gr

Call for Papers for the International Journal of Behavioral Medicine on Research to Reality: The Science of Dissemination and Implementation in Behavioral Medicine

Public health programs are only effective if they are widely disseminated and implemented. The different values and perspectives of practitioners, program implementers, policy makers and researchers may be a significant barrier to this. Practitioners often find generic evidence-based interventions difficult to implement in community settings, especially when there is limited information about how to adapt programs to the local context. Furthermore, public health decision makers and program implementers are often reluctant to consider new interventions when effectiveness has not been demonstrated in their particular setting or country. In contrast, researchers place greater emphasis on internal validity than on generalizability and external validity.

“Dissemination” refers to the flow of evidence-based but customised information or intervention to well-defined target audiences.  “Implementation” refers to the adoption and integration of evidence-based health interventions into specific settings. “Translation” refers to applying or adapting research findings or evidence to different community or population settings.

Effective dissemination, implementation and translation of public health and behavioral medicine interventions require the triangulation of evidence from formal trials with case studies, expert opinion, network analysis, and systems thinking, as well as assessment of the local context.

As a follow-up to a highly successful satellite forum on dissemination and implementation at the 11th International Congress of Behavioral Medicine, Budapest, August 2012, the International Journal of Behavioral Medicine is issuing an international call for papers to address issues pertaining to dissemination, implementation and translation in behavioral medicine. Manuscript submissions are due July 1, 2013.

Research Questions: We are particularly interested in papers that address, but are not limited to, these topics:

What theoretical models and approaches are relevant to understanding and improving dissemination, implementation and translation in Behavioral Medicine? What evidence demonstrates the effectiveness of these models and approaches?

What methods and strategies are being used in dissemination and implementation studies in behavioral medicine?

How can we maximize the impact of behavioral medicine evidence on public health policy and practice?

We will consider papers that report original research, conceptual or theoretical papers, meta-analyses, systematic reviews, and papers that highlight innovative methodologies. Papers from studies conducted in both developed and developing countries are welcome.

Instructions: Please submit your manuscript by July 1, 2013 following the standard requirements for IJBM articles and are subject to standard editorial and peer review processes. See http://www.springer.com/medicine/journal/12529#.

Please address any questions regarding this special issue to the Guest Editors: Dr. Carina Chan (carina.chan@monash.edu), Dr. Brian Oldenburg (brian.oldenburg@monash.edu) and Dr. Vish Viswanath (vish_viswanath@dfci.harvard.edu).

Call for Papers: Health Care Policy Legislation and Administration

The Journal of Health and Human Services Administration (JHHSA), is organizing a symposium seeking contributions on the causes and effects of the current problems associated with health care policy and administration in the United States.

Papers which focus on the following categories will be given highest priority for publication:

(1) health care policy and administration as a strategic asset;

(2) health care policy and administration based on the principles of sustainability and/or social justice;

(3) health care policy and administration and the future of Medicare/Medicaid;

(4) health care policy and administration focusing on issues related to research methodology and its application to applied health care policy.

Submission Details

The deadline for submission of papers is September 12, 2013. Papers should be submitted directly to the guest editor by email: Edward J. Martin (Edward.Martin@csulb.edu).

By October 11, 2013, a set of papers will be selected by an ad hoc review committee based on a blind review process. Then by November 15, 2013, the ad hoc committee will select “revised” blind reviewed papers for publication in the Journal of Health and Human Services Administration (JHHSA).

The invitation to publish with JHHSA is under the assumption that the manuscripts are original, unpublished work, and not under review elsewhere.

The final versions of accepted manuscripts must comply with the manuscript guidelines based on the APA 6th format style and will be due on December 13, 2013.

The publication date for the manuscripts will be January 2014.

If you have any questions or require additional information, please contact the guest editor.

Call for Papers on Collaboration for the Jefferson Journal of Science and Culture

Deadline: November 4th 2013

Email jeffersonjournaluva@gmail.com with inquiries.

Collaborative work has resulted in some of the most famous and infamous advances of the last hundred years, from Neil Armstrong’s first steps on the moon, to the atom bomb, or the United Nations. This issue of the Jefferson Journal of Science and Culture seeks to investigate the nature of collaboration by examining its origins, practice, and iresults. How can collaborative work solve problems and further knowledge? What are the limits or failures of collaborative work? We welcome submissions from all academic fields, and invite authors to define, analyze and critique collaboration in innovative ways.

Natural Sciences submissions may explore the interplay between observation, experiment, and theory in projects requiring expert knowledge from several distinct fields. Authors may also examine how researchers interact with those developing new technologies or methodologies to collect data and to analyze and visualize results, or the importance, difficulties, and rewards of organizing large projects across several institutions.  

Submissions from the Arts and Humanities may include examinations of the creative process and products of collaborating artists in areas such as music, television, film-making, theater or dance. Authors may also investigate the collaborative process of community art in projects led by an individual artist, such as Frank Warren’s Post-Secret or Eric Whitacre's Virtual Choir.

Submissions from the Social Sciences may ask how and when researchers should collaborate, or whether we can collaborate with our research subjects. Authors may also investigate the social value and ethics of collaboration, as well as the collaborative nature of topics including education; trade; social groups; nations; or international organizations.

Additional topics may include, but are not limited to:

Market places as collaboration

Failures of collaboration

The creation of political policy as a collaborative process

Collaborations between scientists and artists

International treaties as collaborations

Teaching and learning as collaboration

Open source technologies as collaborations

Healthcare as a collaborative process

Athletic training as collaboration

Crowd-sourcing as collaboration

Please contact jeffersonjournaluva@gmail.com if you have a concept you’d like to discuss.

The Jefferson Journal of Science and Culture is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed academic journal published by the Jefferson Scholars Foundation of the University of Virginia.

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law: The Global and Domestic Politics of Health Policy in Emerging Nations

In the past two decades, developing nations have become increasingly integrated into the global political-economic system. Although several nations have successfully reformed their political, economic, and health policies, many are still dependent on the international community for financial and technical assistance. Nevertheless, in recent years a group of emerging nations—namely, Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa (BRICS), as well as Indonesia, Malaysia, Mexico, Vietnam, and others—appear to have become less dependent on international assistance, mainly because of their heightened economic growth and geopolitical influence.

This special issue of the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law (JHPPL) seeks to understand the global and domestic politics of health policy in these emerging nations.

Attention is given to the evolutionary relationships among international institutions, such as the World Health Organization (WHO), the World Bank, and the Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria, and domestic policy makers, as well as the role of domestic actors and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). Of particular interest are global health governance mechanisms and the role that civil society plays in transforming these linkages for equitable agenda setting, policy making, and regulation.

More specifically, this issue is guided by two areas of scholarly inquiry.

First, what are the international and domestic linkages related to health policy in the emerging nations, and how have these linkages transformed in the past two decades? What are the roles of both global and domestic institutions in health policy in these nations? And how does the health policy of these nations affect global health policy? For example, do international institutions, such as the WHO, the World Bank, and the Global Fund, employ conditionality or other coercive measures to influence health policy, and are they successful in doing so? Or do these international institutions recognize the rising influence and autonomy of emerging nations, and consequently, are they seeking new types of partnerships with them for health policy? How much influence do global actors and norms have on the domestic health politics and policy in emerging nations? How do the “natural experiments” with health policy in emerging nations influence health policy in other countries and at the global level? How are political leaders in these nations shifting their relationship with international institutions? What can we learn from the evolution of health politics and policy in these emerging nations, and how might these findings inform the global and domestic health policies of other countries?

Second, given the growing importance of domestic actors, including national governments and civil society, in these emerging countries, how do these entities create and shape health policy? What is the nature of linkages among international institutions, international NGOs (e.g., Médecins Sans Frontières), and other domestic institutions, including national governments, and how does this shape health policy? Civil society—including NGOs, community-based organizations, and social health movements dedicated to health policy—are of special interest. For example, in addition to examining their evolutionary role in advocating and pressuring for reform, is civil society working closely with international institutions to influence domestic agenda setting, policy making, and regulation? How has the role of national governments in health policy evolved in the emerging nations, and what lessons does this provide for global health governance and domestic health policy in other countries? Who, if anyone, is monitoring domestic health policy and holding national governments to account? Given that NGOs and social health movements—as well as democratization processes—are emerging in these nations, one might expect to find wide variation in civil societal strategies and influence. What role, if any, have democratizing processes played in shaping domestic health policy in these emerging nations?

Authors submitting manuscripts for this issue may focus on any of these areas of scholarly inquiry. Contributors should also feel free to address any type of health policy question in these emerging countries or global governance issue. Regarding case selection, authors may either investigate one particular nation, compare several of the emerging nations, or focus on the global level.

Submission Guidelines and Timeline

Contributors to this issue will be asked to submit research articles, critical essays, and shorter commentary in accordance with
JHPPL’s editorial guidelines. All submissions should be sent to the series coeditors: Dr. Eduardo J. Gómez of Rutgers University at edgomez@gmail.com; and Dr. Jennifer Prah Ruger of Yale University at jennifer.ruger@yale.edu. Please feel free to contact the coeditors with any questions.

All manuscript submissions are due by June 1, 2013. The journal editor will then meet with the series editors to select manuscripts for full consideration. The selected manuscripts will then be sent out for peer review. We anticipate that final publication decisions will be made and the issue will be posted online ahead of publication by September 2014 with final print and online publication to follow in December 2014.

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Evidence & Policy: Epistemographies of Governmental and Professional Guidelines

Evidence & Policy is the first peer-reviewed journal dedicated to comprehensive and critical assessment of the relationship between research evidence and the concerns of policy makers and practitioners, as well as researchers. International in scope and interdisciplinary in focus, it addresses the needs of those who provide public services, and those who provide the research base for evaluation and development across a wide range of social and public policy issues – from social care to education, from public health to criminal justice.

Evidence & Policy invites contributions to a Special Issue on Epistemographies of governmental and professional guidelines

Guest editors: Ger Wackers and Rolf A. Markussen, Narvik University College, Norway

(Deadline for submission of abstracts (ram@hin.no): August 1, 2013)

Guidelines abound in all areas of social life. Governmental and professional guidelines constitute an important nexus in modern societies’ geography of expertise. They are a strange kind of tools. They do not produce scientific knowledge. Rather, they claim to mediate scientific knowledge and expertise. They do not have the power of law, granting practitioners discretionary space and leeway to make their own professional judgements. However, in audit or review situations, or in accident investigations, they assume the status of “state of the art” and bench mark. Guidelines re-enact and perform a hierarchy of expertise that grants scientific and cognitive authority to “laboratories” and other sites of scientific knowledge production. Simultaneously they configure practitioners as the ones in need of knowledge in order to improve their practice by making it evidence or knowledge based. This is a logic that is expressed in many policy documents across a wide range of governmental policy and professional fields. Guidelines for the development of guidelines have been developed in a range of governmental and international organisations. For clinical research The AGREE Collaboration, for example, provides a platform for the ‘Appraisal for Guideline Research and Evaluation’.

Despite their monologic format in a time that breathes dialogue, user involvement and participation, the production of governmental and professional guidelines has grown into an extensive industry. As an example, the Norwegian Health Directorate alone has currently 151 active governmental guidelines, of which 131 have been produced during the last five years. Guidelines do not only re-enact a hierarchy of expertise in their content. They also reproduce an expensive institutional infrastructure. This is accomplished through a recursive process in which governmental agencies and elite professional bodies identify practitioners' need for a better knowledge base of their practice. They commission guidelines that in turn legitimise the continued existence of the institutional infrastructure. The general confidence in the ability of scientific knowledge to improve governmental and professional practices, and in guidelines as necessary tools of mediation, is not matched by evidence that testifies to their effectiveness. There are studies though that address barriers to the implementation of guidelines in practice and call for better professional leadership to resolve these implementation issues.

Occupying a nexus between science and governance, the scientific literature that addresses epistemic issues in guideline production head on is scant. On the other hand, a sensitized and observant reader will find that guidelines, governmental and professional, figure in many research reports addressing other main issues. In the field of health care, for example, research on end of life care touches on professional guidelines for palliative sedation. Research on electronic patient records touches on guidelines for the proper coding of diseases that follow with the procurement and implementation of such systems. Research on the management of very expensive drugs touches on diagnostic guidelines for the selection of patients for treatment with and reimbursement of the expensive drug. These are guidelines that differ in the extent to which they allow leeway for the professionals' judgement, but also in the degree in which compliance with them is monitored and enforced in the practice they are aiming to regulate.

However, there are a number of on-going research projects that do pursue an empirical study of epistemic issues in governmental and professional guidelines head on, ethnographically. These have in common that they understand guidelines performatively as political agents. They share an interest in what guidelines do (enact or perform). We can sort them roughly into research that studies the genesis or production of guidelines on the one hand, and research that studies ready-made guidelines’ performance on the other. The first approach addresses the guideline-making practices and processes in which scientific knowledge, including epistemic uncertainty, is translated into this particular genre of governing devices. The other approach seeks to explore what ready-made guidelines do, what order they perform in the guideline’s text, for instance by questioning the scripts and user-configurations enacted. But also how they partake in the practices they are supposed to regulate, how they are received or rejected or translated, as well as how guidelines might appear as order-making devices beyond their proclaimed scope of intervention. In addition to pre-, post- and intra-guideline epistemic processes one can discern an infra-perspective with a focus on institutional, infrastructural processes.

In this Special Issue we aim to bring together original research papers that address and critically assess epistemic issues (epistemographies) in and of governmental and professional guidelines from the two research fields that study science and governance, Science and Technology Studies (STS) on the one hand and Policy Studies on the other. This Special Issue is scheduled for publication in 2015.

The following time schedule will be pursued.

1. August 1, 2013: Deadline for submission of abstracts. Please submit abstracts of 200-300 words to ram@hin.no, outlining the paper that you would be able to contribute.

2. October 15, 2013: Invitations to write full papers will be forwarded to contributors.

3. March 1, 2014: Deadline for the submission of first drafts to guest editors at ram@hin.no .

4. June 1, 2014: Deadline for submission of final full text manuscripts to the journal.  These will at this stage be subject to the journal’s ordinary peer review procedures, and further drafts may be requested. The responsibility for final publication decisions rests with Evidence & Policy’s managing editors.

Contact information of guest editors:

Rolf Andreas Markussen
Narvik University College
Faculty of Health and Society
P.O. Box 385
N-8505 Narvik, Norway
E-mail: ram@hin.no
Mobile phone: +47 97070776

Ger Wackers
Narvik University College
Faculty of Health and Society
P.O. Box 385
N-8505 Narvik, Norway
E-mail: ger.wackers@hin.no

Call for Papers for a Special Issue on Applied Health Information Technology of Health Care: The Journal of Delivery Science and Innovation

Submission deadline: August 1, 2013

The 2009 Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act stimulated discussion, innovation and substantially increased adoption of health IT amongst health care professionals.  The potential for Health IT to improve health outcomes, engagement of patients and families in care, the quality of care delivered, and transitions of care across health care settings remains great.

We invite submissions to the third issue of Health Care that highlight innovative applications of information technology that significantly impact patient care and improve outcomes on population levels.  Potential topics in this issue include, but are not limited to:

Measuring the costs and benefits of health information technology

Understanding the relationship between health information technology and health system organization.

Evaluating the meaningful use of health IT

Participation in and consequences of health information exchanges

Using information technology to improve the quality, efficiency, or cost-effectiveness of care

Population health IT

Developing consumer-based health IT (e.g. mobile applications, internet-based tools, personal health records, etc.)

Evaluation of novel health IT tools across a variety of domains and clinical settings

Insights from medical informatics

Advanced use of analytics for improved care delivery

We are also interested in other topics in health IT that have a direct impact on health systems and their providers.

We welcome submissions of original research, perspectives, case studies, and review articles.

Papers should be submitted for publication through our online submission system. http://ees.elsevier.com/hjdsi/

Papers will be reviewed on a rolling basis until the submission deadline of August 1. We encourage authors to contact our editorial team directly with any questions: kkaung@college.harvard.edu

Call for Papers: Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health

The Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health (JEGH) plans to impact global epidemiology and international health with peer-reviewed articles focused on innovative scholarship and strategies to advance global health policy. The journal will take special interest in publishing rigorous assessments of policies where these have been implemented based on epidemiological and public health research. At Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health we believe epidemiology and public health are closely intertwined, both scientifically, and from a health policy vantage: advances in one area exert positive consequences on the other.

The journal benefits from a diverse, multidisciplinary, experienced and unusually international editorial board that will facilitate the publication of articles and perspectives reflecting a global view of public health medicine and epidemiology. We also seek to emphasize our focus on supporting the academic, clinical and practical needs of public health practitioners in the field.

The journal seeks to improve regional and global health by informing efforts to reduce the risk of communicable and non-communicable diseases. We are particularly interested in the links between evolving epidemiologic advances and the implementation of health policy initiatives, eventually in publishing efficacy assessments, including the assessment of unintended consequences.

As global health medicine meets unprecedented problems - the H1N1 pandemic being a recent example - imaginative approaches will be needed to influence health policy, foreign policy and even immigration policy. The resulting need for multidisciplinary research is not well served by the current body of academic publications and this journal seeks to fill this important gap.

The Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health is an interdisciplinary journal that welcomes reviews, original papers, laboratory, epidemiological or clinical, as well as perspectives and commentaries from all aspects of communicable and non-communicable diseases, in particular those identified as priorities by the World Health Assembly. JEGH will not accept case reports and submissions purely focused on basic (bench) science.

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine: Migration and Health

Submission deadline: Augst 1, 2013

Call for Papers for Health Policy and Technology: Adopting Health Technology

Deadline for submissions 15th June 2013

Health Policy and Technology is the official journal of the Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine, and is a cross-disciplinary journal focusing on health policy and the role of technology in health environments. The journal publishes relevant, timely and accessible papers and commentaries supporting policy makers, health professionals, health technology providers, patient groups and academia interested in this area where health, policy and technology converge.