Research on Global Health and Health Systems
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Global Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2023) | Viewed by 4358
Special Issue Editors
Interests: health systems; global health; health services delivery; digital innovation
Interests: disaster risk reduction and health; health workforce training and capacity development; adolescent and child health; health in humanitarian settings
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The World Health Organization (WHO) defines universal health coverage (UHC) as “… all individuals and communities receiv[ing] the health services they need without suffering financial hardship. It includes the full spectrum of essential, quality health services, from health promotion to prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, and palliative care across the life course.” Moving towards UHC demands strengthening health systems in all countries. Despite this, progress towards achieving UHC in many countries has been slow, hindered by (among other factors) weak health systems and workforce shortages; geographical barriers and economic challenges; poor infrastructure; geopolitical and environmental crises; and weak governance.
The COVID-19 pandemic and climate change have highlighted the importance of robust health systems for achieving health security. While perhaps our focus has been on the infectious disease emergency, the need for strong and resilient health systems is just as important to address the growing non-communicable and injury challenges—and more broadly their environmental, social and economic determinants, we, as a global community, face.
It is these, and related aspects of health development, this special edition of IJERPH will explore. With such a premise, submission on topics including, but not limited to, the following are welcome:
- Tropical medicine and public health;
- Health service delivery and models of care;
- Health system financing, social protection, and insurance;
- Health workforce;
- Social inequity and health;
- Digital health;
- Health information systems and management;
- Data for decision-making;
- Decolonising global health.
Dr. Adam Craig
Dr. Kristen Beek
Dr. Rohina Joshi
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.
Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.
Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2500 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.
Keywords
- global health
- health development
- health systems research
- universal health coverage
- primary health care
- quality
- workforce
- financing
- health information
- equity
