Occupational Medicine calls for papers / publications

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Europe’s Journal of Psychology: Quality of Life in Social Science & Clinical Medicine

We are inviting papers for a special issue on Quality of Life in Social Science & Clinical Medicine to be published by Europe's Journal of Psychology (EJOP) in February 2013.
This special issue, edited by Dr. Paraskevi Theofilou, welcomes theoretical, methodological and empirical contributions on the following main topics:

1) Quality of life and mental health in chronic disease patients as well as in socially disadvantaged populations
2) Patients’ adherence to treatment - Interventions to improve adherence
3) Health locus of control in chronic disease patients - The relation to QoL and treatment adherence
4) Quality of life in health professionals, e.g. stress, anxiety, burnout
5) Quality of life definition, measurement etc in social science and clinical medicine (as a theoretical topic)

EJOP is a peer-reviewed open-access journal meant to facilitate communication between psychologists, both young professionals and specialists, and to give them access to high-quality professional information, thus fostering the scientific psychological community in Europe and worldwide. It publishes four issues per year and all the articles can be found at: http://ejop.psychopen.eu. The journal is currently indexed by DOAJ, EBSCO, Scopus, ProQuest and PsychEXTRA and part of the PsychOpen Publication Platform.

The deadline for submissions is 15 July and articles should be submitted through the electronic submission system (http://ejop.psychopen.eu/information/authors) with a note that they are intended for this special edition. Articles should not exceed 10.000 words in length and comply with APA publication standards. More author's guidelines can be found at: http://ejop.psychopen.eu/about/submissions#authorGuidelines

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of the International Journal of Disability, Community & Rehabilitation: What Sorts of People Should There Be?

Guest Editor

Gregor Wolbring, Community Rehabilitation and Disability Studies, Dept. of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary

Throughout history, people with non-normative abilities have been judged. Sometimes this judgment led to positive consequences, however for the most part these non-normative abilities were judged negatively and the carriers of such non-normative abilities experienced disabling treatment. This very judgment (ableism) and its disabling consequences is one of the main areas of scholarly work within the realm of disability studies. Eugenics, the practice of finding ways to better heritable abilities of humans, is one dynamic that influences the judgment of people’s abilities and the disabling consequences and vice versa.

What sorts of people should there be is a question that has been asked and answered in different ways throughout human history, is still a question asked and answered today and will be with us also for some time in the future.

Advances in science and technology will allow new judgments and actions linked to the sentiment around the question of what sorts of people there should be.

In partnership with the SSHRC-CURA-funded project “Living Archives on Eugenics in Western Canada” (eugenicsarchive.ca), the Editors of IJDCR would like to devote a special issue on this topic.

We invite potential contributors, regardless of fields of study (discipline), to submit 250-word abstracts that articulate the conceptual arguments and knowledge base to be covered in a critical analysis on various aspects from history to future of “What sorts of people should there be”.

Please submit abstracts to the Guest Editor via e-mail at gwolbrin[at]ucalgary.ca by 15 July, 2012

From selected abstracts, we will request full articles of 3000-5000 words (excluding figures and tables) of original research and scholarship on a range of topics to be submitted to the editor by 15 October 2012. Note that an invitation to submit an article does not guarantee its publication.

Every submitted article will be subject to blind peer review and recommendations arising.

As to possible areas linked to the theme the below is a sample list of possible topics

What sorts of people should be born
What sorts of people should live
What sorts of people should be citizens
What sorts of people should compete
What sorts of people….

We invite authors to investigate the history, contemporary use and potential future exhibition of the relationships between the core question “What sorts of people should there be” and such issues as:

disabled people and what it means to be ‘disabled’,
the community around them
practitioners, consumers and researchers linked to the disability discourse
community rehabilitation and the rehabilitation field in general
inclusive education and the education of disabled people in general
the future of education
employability of disabled people
citizenship of disabled people
global citizenship
body image of disabled people
medical and social health policies and their impact on disabled people
health care for disabled people
elderly people, youthism and ageism
disabled people in low income countries
laws and international conventions related to disabled people such as the UN Convention on the rights of persons with disabilities
the concept of personhood
concept of health and health care
the measure of disability adjusted life years and other measurements used to guide health care dollar allocation
quality of life assessment
history
future
science and technology governance
science and technology assessment
ethics
enhancement

For more information about the International Journal of Disability, Community & Rehabilitation (IJDCR) please go to http://www.ijdcr.ca.

International Journal of Disability, Community & Rehabilitation

www.ijdcr.ca

Call for Submissions: American Public Health Association Occupational Health and Safety Section and the Health Informatics Information Technology Section Digital Technology Award Contest

The APHA Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) Section and the Health Informatics Information Technology (HIIT) Section seeks submissions of digital mixed or multimedia video presentations that represent the communication, delivery or recognition of occupational safety and health topics or products for the OHS/HIIT Digital Technology Award at the 140th Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association. The deadline for submissions is August 1, 2012.

The purpose of the contest is to challenge designers, engineers, and information technology professional to develop a short presentation with the best or most attractive use of technology and digital video media that communicates, describes, delivers, trains, raises awareness, connects or collects - occupational safety and health, OHS issues or products. The presentations should be attuned to OHS information and utilize digital technology, social media, video, promotional and communication techniques. The best presentations will be able to reach OHS/Public Health audience and beyond.

The presentations should cover one or more of the following topic areas:

Ergonomics; Industrial Hygiene/Exposure Assessment or Hazard Control; Worker Training/ Education; Occupational Health Policy; Occupational/Industrial Safety; Cleaner Production/Pollution Prevention; Occupational/Industrial Psychology; Work Organization; Control/Hazard Banding; Prevention through Design; Occupational Medicine/Nursing; Occupational Epidemiology; or Other Occupational Safety and Health Related (e.g. economics, sociology, information technology).

The presentations should be between 2 - 15 minutes and designed for display on a LCD display monitor with or without sound. The presentations will be reviewed by the OHS/HIIT Award Committee and selected winners will be announced in September 2012. The criteria for selection are: 1) quality of design and use of technology; 2) ability to reach beyond OHS audiences; and 3) potential contribution to the field.

The first place winner will be awarded Admission to the APHA 2012 Conference. Depending on the number of submissions, there will also be awards for second place and most creative presentation. An LCD monitor will be dedicated to showcasing the presentations at the OHS booth in the Exhibition Hall of the APHA Section and SPIG Pavilion throughout the conference.

Please forward presentations to:

Walter Jones, MSc, CIH
Chair OHS Section
wjones@lhsfna.org

LHSFNA
905 16th Street, NW
WDC, 20009
202/383-2829

Call for Papers: Policy, Politics, & Nursing Practice

Get published! Submit your manuscript to Policy, Politics, & Nursing Practice

Benefits of Publishing in this Journal

Rigorous peer review of your work
Prompt publishing
Guaranteed targeted, multidisciplinary audience
High visibility for maximum global exposure

Now Indexed in MEDLINE!

Policy, Politics & Nursing Practice (PPNP) is a quarterly, peer-reviewed journal that explores the multiple relationships between nursing and health policy. PPNP serves as a major source of data-based study, policy analysis and discussion on timely, relevant policy issues for nurses in a broad variety of roles and settings, and for others who are interested in nursing-related policy issues.

Submit Manuscripts in these Areas

You are invited to submit your manuscript on a broad variety of topics and issues, including (but not limited to):

Impact of health system change and health reform on nurses and nursing practice;
Legislation and regulations affecting the nursing workforce and nurses’ practice environments;
Nurses’ roles as policy-makers--as legislators, agency officials, advocates and political leaders;
The roles of nursing organizations in shaping policy nationally and globally;
Policy issues currently under debate in the nursing profession;
Advancing solutions to health care disparities;
Health care financing and reimbursement issues;
Comparative analysis of global nursing issues;
Policy issues related to interdisciplinary practice, education and regulation.

We welcome research-based articles, commentary, policy analysis, discussion, book and film reviews and letters to the editor.

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 Issue of Fashion Practice: Fashion, Health, and Wellbeing

Spring 2013

Fashion and health are symbiotic; each affects the other. Fashion can make us stand straighter and help prevent osteoporosis. Fashion can also damage our feet and our balance through a choice of shoes or it can exercise our leg muscles and improve our gait. Fashion can protect us from the harsh rays of the sun or monitor our health through embedded electronic sensors. Fashion is a visualization of how we choose to live our lives. The fashion choices we make affect our thoughts and feelings (emotionally, spiritually, physically).

This issue will connect fashion to the topic of health and wellbeing. Manuscripts are requested that explore, define, and document the interconnections between fashion and health.

Topics may include (but are not limited to) the following:

• Fashion design and wellbeing
• Fashion and sports
• The relationship between healthy lifestyles and fashion design
• Fashion and mental health
• Issues related to body image (cross cultural or cross historical)
• Considerations of health/disease and beauty/ugliness as it relates to body size
• Connections between fashion and appearance management
• Functional fashion and protective apparel
• Unhealthy consumption practices
• Environment and health related to fashion

Submission Guidelines
Prepare a full paper (approximately 6,000–8,000 words in length) for review. You must also include a biography of the author(s) of no more than 60 words on a separate page, an abstract of approximately 200 words, and a list of five keywords. Authors are advised to consult the Berg website for style guidelines (http://www.bergpublishers.com/JournalsHomepage/FashionPractice/AuthorGuidelines/tabid/3732/Default.aspx).

Contacts: Lucy Dunne (ldunne@umn.edu) or the regular editors of Fashion Practice: Marilyn DeLong (mdelong@umn.edu) or Sandy Black (s.black@fashion.arts.ac.uk)

Submission Deadline: May 25, 2012

A symposium at the University of Minnesota is focused on this topic and will serve as a pool. However, submissions for this special issue are not limited to authors of the Fashion and Health Symposium at the University of Minnesota.

Call for Papers for a Symposium Issue on Disability Discrimination of the Employee Rights & Employment Policy Journal

The Employee Rights & Employment Policy Journal is sponsoring a symposium issue dedicated to disability discrimination and the law. Although all papers within this topical area will be considered, papers with particular emphasis on the ADA Amendments will be given special consideration. The symposium issue is scheduled for publication as the first issue of 2013. The symposium editor is Professor Ramona L. Paetzold of Texas A & M University. Please submit all manuscripts to her no later than Friday, August 24, for consideration in the symposium issue. Papers should be submitted in Word via email attachment to Prof. Paetzold. Please direct all questions to Prof. Paetzold as well.

Call for Papers: Women’s Health & Urban Life

The WH & UL is a peer reviewed journal located at the Sociology Department, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. The journal addresses a wide range of topics that directly or indirectly affect both the physical and mental health of girls, teenage and adult women living in urban or urbanizing pockets of the world. The orientation of the journal is critical, feminist and social scientific. The journal accepts both quantitative and qualitative, and both theoretical and empirical articles on topics such as:

WOMEN'S HEALTH IN GENERAL

• Social and structural factors affecting women's health

• Factors in urban environments affecting women's health

• Women's use of alternate healing techniques in urban centres

• Smoking, substance abuse

• Social attitudes and women's experiences of menopause

• Beauty myths and elective surgeries in urban centres

• Eating disorders

• Sexually transmitted diseases and women's vulnerability in urban centres

• Women's mental health/stress in urban centres

• Efficacy of social support systems in women's health

• Rape trauma

• Aging and women's health

• Poverty and women's health in world cities

HEALTH RELATED TO REPRODUCTION

• New reproductive technologies and ethical considerations

• Teenage pregnancies and urban support systems

• Birth protection and abortion debates, efficacy of support systems

• Social constructions of childlessness and health implications

• Over-medicalization of women's health and the birthing process

• Cultural pressures on sex selection and women's health

HEALTH RELATED TO HOME-BASED TOPICS:

• Violence in the home such as child physical and sexual abuse, incest, intimate partner abuse and elder abuse- urban/rural differences

• Mothering related issues and women's health

• Housework safety

HEALTH RELATED TO WORK-BASED TOPICS:

• Sexual harassment and health implications

• Double shift/Second shift

• Job safety and security

• Sex workers and health in urban centres

• Women workers' health in a global market

GLOBAL ISSUES IN WOMEN'S HEALTH

• Women's health under the stress of social and environmental change

• Female child malnutrition in the developed/developing worlds

• Female child abandonment in the developed/developing worlds

• Female child labour and health in the developed/developing worlds

• Female child prostitution, sex trade and health in urban centres

• Forced marriages and women's health

• Female circumcision and genital mutilation

• Wife beating, kitchen fires, honour killings

• Rape and war and women's health

• Cultural differences in women's health

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Applied Ergonomics: Warnings

Christopher B. Mayhorn, North Carolina State University
Kenneth R. Laughery, Rice University
Michael S. Wogalter, North Carolina State University

Manuscripts are being solicited for a special issue of the Applied Ergonomics on Warnings to be published late 2013.

Theme of the Special Issue

Warnings are used to communicate hazard and risk information to people as a means of preventing accidents and injury. Since the mid 1980s, warning research has undergone tremendous growth in defining the factors that determine whether a warning will or will not be effective. Research has begun to evaluate early and intermediate stages of processing necessary for behavior change (e.g., tests of attention and comprehension), using new technologies and methodologies (e.g., virtual reality and behavioral paradigms), or using assessments of perceptions of risk and hazard. However, there is still a great need for new approaches and research to fill gaps in knowledge in this important area. While it is clear that warnings can be effective in increasing safe behavior in some situations and with some persons, their use remains controversial. Most research and discussions on warnings issues have been presented at conferences and in proceedings, but have not enjoyed wide dissemination in journal publications. As a result, this information has not reached individuals who might be able to use it in practice and research. The purpose of the Special Issue on Warnings in Applied Ergonomics is twofold. First, the Special Issue should make available to academics and practitioners, the state-of-the-art of warnings research and theory. Second, it should serve as a bridge between warnings research and other fields that relate to safety perceptions and behavior.

The co-editors of the Special Issue take a broad view of the area of warnings and they anticipate receiving research articles that address a range of topics. Manuscripts of particular interest might include (but are not limited to):

High quality empirical research applied to areas such as medicine, transportation, workplace safety, public information signage, security, or consumer products.

Theoretical contributions (possibly models) that would integrate and assess existing research in areas such as receiver characteristics (e.g., personality, age, etc.) or delivery modality (e.g., auditory, olfactory, etc.). Cross-cultural topics are especially important given the international readership of Applied Ergonomics.

Studies that address general warnings design and system integration that influence the effectiveness of warning labels on or accompanying consumer products (e.g., their display in owner’s manuals).

Research that includes practitioner case studies that describe domain specific situations where warnings are/are not effective. For example, research might investigate the role of warnings in the media (e.g., in advertisements, public service announcements, or on the web).

New approaches in research including methodological and technological advances to measuring and predicting compliance.

Work that explores non-design influences on warning effectiveness (e.g., personal, social, time, and stress characteristics or effects).

Forensic investigations that measure aspects of warnings and risk communications.

Manuscripts are due August 3, 2012. For further information and manuscript-format instructions, please visit http://ees.elsevier.com/jerg/ or contact any co-editor. Those wishing to submit a manuscript should contact the co-editors as soon as possible as there are specific instructions for identifying manuscripts for this Special Issue within the Elsevier Editorial System. Corresponding authors of accepted manuscripts will receive a printed copy of the special issue.

The co-editors are also soliciting qualified individuals to review submitted manuscripts. If interested, please contact Chris Mayhorn.

Christopher B. Mayhorn, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, North Carolina State University
Email: Chris_mayhorn@ncsu.edu
Telephone: (919) 513-4856

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of the Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries: Process Safety Pioneers

Submission Deadline: December 31, 2012

Process safety has come a long way since the beginning of chemical industrial activities. Before the 1960s, hazards and risks – and accidents – were perceived to go hand-in-hand with industrial progress. From the 1960s onwards, an evolution in the technology for – and in the attitude to – safely operating process plants has taken place. Sometimes it was more like a revolution, but far more often the evolution progressed step-by-step. All around the world, a number of “pioneers” gave direction to these process safety advancements, often working in the silence of their offices or laboratories. However, these pioneers have clearly saved large numbers of men and women from injury and death. To honour these process safety pioneers, a Special Issue of the Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries is being planned.

Papers are invited on any topic related to this Special Issue subject, that is process safety pioneers and pioneering. Papers can for example be submitted on the following subjects:

Anatomy of the progress of process safety
Study on a specific (very important) topic initiated by a process safety pioneer
Past, present and future of process safety made possible by process safety pioneer(s)
Novel approaches to process accident prediction and prevention
and other related topics

Our aim is to honour those pioneers that paved the way for true safety in the process industries, and that substantially contributed with academic and/or professional studies to the process safety research field. Our goal is also to help the process safety community and to aid organizations from the process industries to remember pioneers’ research findings, in order to further avoid incidents due to unawareness and/or inadequate learning.

Authors are encouraged to include a specific Process Safety Pioneer Acknowledgement section in which a short biography of the process safety pioneer is given, his/her most relevant/important publications are mentioned, and the relevance to the current paper is explained. The authors are free to fill up this Acknowledgement section with the information that they deem interesting, up to maximum 400 words.

Manuscripts must be submitted by no later than December 31, 2012 using the Elsevier Editorial System (EES) available at http://ees.elsevier.com/jlp/. Be sure to select the appropriate choices from the drop-down menus for article type and requested editor. Also note the journal requirements for length and style (in particular the requirements for referencing) available on the Authors’ Instructions page.

All submissions will be peer-reviewed in accordance with normal journal practice. It is our intention to have the submission, review and revision process completed by May 31, 2013. Depending on the response to this call for papers, it may not be possible to publish all submitted papers in the special issue. Should this happen, the journal editorial team will select the papers to appear on the special issue, with the remaining papers being considered for a regular issue of the journal.

All queries should be addressed to either prof. Valerio Cozzani (valerio.cozzani@unibo.it) for papers on Process safety pioneers from Europe or Asia, or to prof. Faisal Khan (fikhan@mun.ca) for papers on Process Safety Pioneers from the Americas or Oceania, who are the Guest Editors for this Special Issue on Process Safety Pioneers. Genserik Reniers (genserik.reniers@ua.ac.be) and Paul Amyotte (paul.amyotte@dal.ca) serve as regular editors for this Special Issue.