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Journal Title: American Journal of Community Psychology
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About the Journal: American Journal of Community Psychology published in association with the Society for Community Research and Action: The Division of Community Psychology of the American Psychological Association offers quantitative and qualitative research on community psychological interventions at the social, neighborhood, organizational, group, and individual levels. Wide-ranging topics include individual and community mental and physical health; educational, legal, and work environment processes, policies; social welfare and social justice.
HINTS pubs (4/07):
Primary Readership: community-oriented psychologists
Examples of Potential Topics: health disparities, beliefs, attitudes
Journal Title: American Journal of Health Behavior
Impact Factor: 0.64
About the Journal: The official publication of the American Academy of Health Behavior. The objective of the publication is to provide a comprehensive understanding of the impact of personal attributes, personality characteristics, behavior patterns, social structure, and processes on health maintenance, health restoration, and health improvement; to disseminate knowledge of holistic, multidisciplinary approaches to designing and implementing effective health programs; and to showcase health behavior analysis skills that have been proven to affect health improvement and recovery.
HINTS pubs (4/07): 1
Primary Readership: health behavior scholars
Examples of Potential Topics: health behaviors
Journal Title: American Journal of Health Promotion
Impact Factor: could not locate
About the Journal: The editorial goal of the American Journal of Health Promotion is to provide a forum for exchange among the many disciplines involved in health promotion and an interface between researchers and practitioners. We also publish a newsletter called The Art of Health Promotion, which provides practical information to make programs more effective. The newsletter is published as a section of the American Journal of Health Promotion.
HINTS pubs (4/07):
Primary Readership: 60% clinicians, 40% academics
Examples of Potential Topics: health behaviors
Journal Title: American Journal of Preventive Medicine
Impact Factor: 3.188
About the Journal: The American Journal of Preventive Medicine is the official journal of the American College of Preventive Medicine and the Association for Prevention Teaching and Research. It publishes articles in the areas of prevention research, teaching, practice and policy. Original research is published on interventions aimed at the prevention of chronic and acute disease and the promotion of individual and community health. Of particular emphasis are papers that address the primary and secondary prevention of important clinical, behavioral and public health issues. Papers also address educational initiatives aimed at improving the ability of health professionals to provide effective clinical prevention and public health services. Papers on health services research pertinent to prevention and public health are also published. The journal also publishes official policy statements, review articles, media reviews, editorials, and periodic supplements and special theme issues devoted to areas of current interest to the prevention community.
HINTS pubs (4/07): 1
Primary Readership: prevention scholars, policy makers, practitioners
Examples of Potential Topics: women's health, smoking, physical activity, nutrition
Journal Title: American Journal of Public Health
Impact Factor: 3.566
About the Journal: The American Journal of Public Health (AJPH) is dedicated to original work in research, research methods, and program evaluation in the field of public health. This prestigious journal also regularly publishes authoritative editorials and commentaries and serves as a forum for the analysis of health policy. The stated mission of the Journal is ""to advance public health research, policy, practice, and education."" All published papers have undergone rigorous peer review (only one out of five submitted papers is accepted for publication). Each month, the nation's most influential public health professionals turn to AJPH for the most current, authoritative, in-depth information in the field. APHA represents more than 70 public health professions
HINTS pubs (4/07):
Primary Readership: preventive medicine, primary care, epidemiology, and public health, practitioners and students
Examples of Potential Topics: health behaviors, nutrition, methodology and measurement, psychosocial factors
Journal Title: Archives of Internal Medicine
Impact Factor: 7.9
About the Journal: Journal published by the American Medical Assoication that aims to promote the art and science of medicine and the betterment of human health by publishing manuscripts of interest and relevance to internists practicing as generalists or as medical subspecialists. It is an international peer-reviewed journal published 22 times per year and reaches the majority of office- and hospital-based general internists and significant numbers of internal medicine subspecialists in the United States. The Archives of Internal Medicine's recent acceptance rate is about 10%. The average time from receipt to first decision is 12 days; from receipt to final decision, 14 days; from submission to publication, 152 days.
HINTS pubs (4/07): 1
Primary Readership: clinicians
Examples of Potential Topics: cancer screening, health communication
Journal Title: Cancer Control: Journal of the Moffitt Cancer Center
Impact Factor: Could not locate
About the Journal: Quarterly, peer-reviewed journal that is published to enhance the knowledge needed by professionals in oncology to help them minimize the impact of human malignancy. Starting in 2006, Cancer Control will include a new feature that will focus on cancer, culture and literacy. Manuscripts of high interest are those that address the following themes: health disparities, intersection of culture and literacy, community-based participatory methods, cancer education innovation, and health policy.
HINTS pubs (4/07):
Primary Readership: medical professionals, including oncologists in all subspecialties; selected primary care physicians; medical researchers
Examples of Potential Topics: cancer screening, health communication, health disparities
Journal Title: Cancer Causes & Control
Impact Factor: 2.92
About the Journal: Journal scope includes: variation in cancer distribution within and between populations; factors associated with cancer risk; preventive and therapeutic interventions on a population scale; economic, demographic, and health-policy implications of cancer; and related methodological issues. journal will normally publish within 30 to 60 days of acceptance of manuscripts.
HINTS pubs (4/07): 1
Primary Readership: researchers and practitioners working in epidemiology, medical statistics, cancer biology, health education, medical economics and related fields
Examples of Potential Topics: health behaviors, cancer screening, risk
Journal Title: Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention
Impact Factor: Could not locate
About the Journal: Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention is published by the American Association for Cancer Research. The journal publishes original, peer-reviewed research on cancer causation, mechanisms of carcinogenesis, prevention, and survivorship. Topics include descriptive, analytical, biochemical, and molecular epidemiology; the use of biomarkers to study the neoplastic and preneoplastic processes in humans; chemoprevention and other types of prevention trials; and the role of behavioral factors in cancer etiology and prevention.
HINTS pubs (4/07): 3
Primary Readership: epidemiologists
Examples of Potential Topics: health behaviors, screening, survivorship
Journal Title: Communication and Medicine
Impact Factor: Could not locate
About the Journal: To consolidate different traditions of discourse and communication research in its commitment to an understanding of psychosocial, cultural and ethical aspects of healthcare in contemporary societies. To cover the different specialities within medicine and allied healthcare studies. To underscore the significance of specific areas and themes by bringing out special issues from time to time. To be fully committed to publishing evidence-based, data-driven original studies with practical application and relevance as key guiding principles. To be targeted at an interdisciplinary audience. To promote a reader-friendly style and format, including engagements with debates and dialogues on crosscutting themes of topical significance.
HINTS pubs (4/07):
Primary Readership: healthcare professionals and researchers as well as students in the medical, social and human sciences
Examples of Potential Topics: health communication, psychosocial factors,health disparities
Journal Title: Communication Research
Impact Factor: 1.255
About the Journal: Publishes articles that explore the processes, antecedents, and consequences of communication in a broad range of societal systems including health. To qualify for publication, research should, first, be explicitly tied to some form of communication; second, be theoretically driven with results that inform theory; third, use the most rigorous empirical methods; and fourth, be directly linked to the most important problems and issues facing humankind. Articles reviewed in approx. 6 weeeks.
HINTS pubs (4/07):
Primary Readership: communication scholars
Examples of Potential Topics: health communication (theoretically-based analyses), risk, health behaviors
Journal Title: Health Communication
Impact Factor: 0.929
About the Journal: As an outlet for scholarly intercourse between medical and social sciences, this noteworthy journal seeks to improve practical communication between caregivers and patients and between institutions and the public.
HINTS pubs (4/07): 1
Primary Readership: communication scholars
Examples of Potential Topics: provider-patientinteraction, health campaigns, health information, health promotion, and gerontological concerns
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