Call for papers: Equity in Health and Health Care"

For a special issue of the International Journal of Society Systems Science.

The purpose of this special issue is to highlight the latest interdisciplinary and innovative research, tools, methods and approaches to assess, reduce and prevent environmentally driven socioeconomic, ethnic and regional health disparities. We welcome manuscripts that link environmental, health and these factors including, but not limited to, spatial dimensions of health disparities, community capacity building for environmental justice and community based participatory research. Additionally, we also encourage submissions on policy analysis/policy decision-making that address social determinants of public health, and on analytical approaches that inform decision-making policies and program development/ implementation to reduce/ prevent public health disparities. Our aim is to advance health disparity research into the arena of public health and help accelerate efforts designed to improve access to healthier environments for vulnerable populations and to create healthier societies for all.

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

• Assessing tools and methods of spatial dimensions of health disparities
• Community based participatory research aim to reduce and prevent health disparities
• Policy analysis/policy decision-making that address social determinants of public health
• Analytical approaches that inform decision-making policies
• Program development/ implementation to reduce/ prevent public health disparities
• International case studies and good practices
• Reports related to innovative techniques

Important Dates

Manuscripts due by: 31 January, 2018
Notification to authors: 31 March, 2018
Final versions due by: 25 May, 2018