Public Health, Well-Being and Environmental Justice

Dear Colleagues,

Focus and Scope: This Special Issue highlights how public health, well-being and environmental justice are interwoven. Environments degraded due to historical social inequities, climate change and human disasters are not equally distributed and result in unhealthy populations with maladaptive coping strategies. The lack of education, investment and advocacy can result in damaged health and reduced life expectancy. This Special Issue welcomes papers connecting the lived environment and context in relation to health outcomes. The focus will be urban areas with dense populations and can include topics on access to healthy food, transportation, health education, housing, invisible toxins, healthcare access, war, trauma, gun violence and maternal child health.

This Special Issue will contribute to existing discussions in the area by the means of contemporary case studies in the form of articles or conceptual papers. Special attention will be given to articles with original data that discuss both the etiology and epidemiology of the issue as well as its remediation. It is hoped that selections come from the experience of humans across their life course and the impacts of their environment as well as scientific contributions that discuss environmental adaptions that can impact human well-being. Current acute events including war and weather have disproportionate impacts on marginalized or historically disenfranchised populations. These populations share equally poor quality of life and health outcomes magnified by the lack of access to or trust in health or mental care, and this is the lens through which articles for the Special Issue will be selected.

Contributions have to follow one of the three categories of papers (article, conceptual paper or review) of the journal and address the topic of the Special Issue.

Prof. Dr. Stephanie Hartwell
Guest Editor

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 conceptual papers 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 double-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Societies 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 1400 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.

• environment
• context
• social inequities
• human disasters
• life course
• urban
• disenfranchised
• toxins
• trauma