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Jeanette Lancaster, RN, PhD, FAAN |
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From the Editor
Attention manuscript submitters! When you submit your manuscript on Editorial Manager, please submit directly to the issue you wish to have consider your manuscript. Look at the list of upcoming issues on the website then choose the specific issue editor at the appropriate time in the electronic submission process.
Welcome to Family & Community Health’s website. This electronic journal platform is easy to use to find journal content, collaborate and share innovative health care ideas in family and community health. New features introduced in this platform include:
- Editor’s Picks showcase selected articles included in the journal over the past year.
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With the many changes that are occurring in health care keeping up with how they will effect the health of the public is vital. Our upcoming themes provide ideas of how to deal more effectively with obesity, diabetes, health disparities; effective use of family based strategies; translation of evidence-based data into interventions and how history has shaped family and community health. Articles in recent and up-coming issues will complement the themes of the 2013 meetings of the American Public Health Association, November 2-6, 3013 in Boston, Massachusetts, whose title is "Think global, act local: Best practices around the world" and the Association of Community Health Nursing Educators which will meet jointly with the Public Health Nursing Section of the APHA June 6-8, 2013 in Raleigh North Carolina. The theme for this meeting is "Evidence-based Populaiton Nursing: General and Advanced Practice".
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Jeanette Lancaster, PhD, RN, FAAN Editor
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Featured Supplement
January/March 2011 - Volume 34 - Supplement S1
Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health (REACH): Translating Processes of Change and Attributing Improved Health Outcomes to Social Determinants of Health Programs
This supplement was funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Published
January/March 2011
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Call for Papers
37.1 - Family Interventions to Prevent and Control Obesity
Call for Papers Manuscript submission parameters:
- Study population must be “underserved” (e.g., minority, low-income, rural, immigrant)* - Intervention design must be theory-driven* - Interventions can range from clinical to community settings - Pilot, feasibility studies, RCT designs are all acceptable - Quantitative, qualitative or mixed methods approaches are all acceptable
*Submitted papers must meet this required parameter
Issue Editor Information Joel E. Williams, MPH, PhD, ATC Assistant Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences College of Health, Education and Human Development Clemson University P.O. Box 340745 Clemson, SC 29634-0745 Phone: 864/656-1017; Fax: 864/656-6227 JOEL2@CLEMSON.EDU
Submissions Before submission authors should carefully read over the journal’s Author Guidelines, which are located at http://journals.lww.com/familyandcommunityhealth/Pages/informationforauthors.aspx. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal’s system at http://www.editorialmanager.com/fch/ no later than April 1, 2013.
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Current Issue Highlights
Family & Community Health. 36(2):93-94, April/June 2013.
doi: 10.1097/FCH.0b013e318282b17a
Beech, Bettina M.
Family & Community Health. 36(2):95-96, April/June 2013.
doi: 10.1097/FCH.0b013e3182867034
Valenzuela, Jessica M.; Vaughn, Lisa M.; Crosby, Lori E.; Strong, Heather; Kissling, Alexandra; Mitchell, Monica J.
Family & Community Health. 36(2):97-108, April/June 2013.
doi: 10.1097/FCH.0b013e318282b2f2
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Call for Papers
37.1 - Family Interventions to Prevent and Control Obesity
Call for Papers Manuscript submission parameters:
- Study population must be “underserved” (e.g., minority, low-income, rural, immigrant)* - Intervention design must be theory-driven* - Interventions can range from clinical to community settings - Pilot, feasibility studies, RCT designs are all acceptable - Quantitative, qualitative or mixed methods approaches are all acceptable
*Submitted papers must meet this required parameter
Issue Editor Information Joel E. Williams, MPH, PhD, ATC Assistant Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences College of Health, Education and Human Development Clemson University P.O. Box 340745 Clemson, SC 29634-0745 Phone: 864/656-1017; Fax: 864/656-6227 JOEL2@CLEMSON.EDU
Submissions Before submission authors should carefully read over the journal’s Author Guidelines, which are located at http://journals.lww.com/familyandcommunityhealth/Pages/informationforauthors.aspx. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal’s system at http://www.editorialmanager.com/fch/ no later than April 1, 2013.
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Upcoming Issues
37.1 FAMILY INTERVENTIONS TO PREVENT AND CONTROL OBESITY ** See Call for Papers (left side of page) for Manuscript Submission Parameters ** Due to Issue Editor: 4/1/2013 Joel E. Williams, MPH, PhD, ATC Assistant Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences College of Health, Education and Human Development Clemson University P.O. Box 340745 Clemson, SC 29634-0745 Phone: 864/656-1017; Fax: 864/656-6227 JOEL2@CLEMSON.EDU
37.2 TRANSLATION OF EVIDENCE-BASED INTERVENTIONS Due to Issue Editor: August 2, 2013 Bettina Beech, DrPH, MPH Professor, Department of Social Sciences and Health Policy Wake Forest University School of Medicine Piedmont Plaza II, Suite #282 Winston-Salem, NC 27157 Phone: 336/716-6511 bbeech@wfubmc.edu
37.3 SHAPING FAMILY & COMMUNITY HEALTH: AN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE Due to Issue Editors: October 1, 2013 Send all manuscripts via Editorial Manager to Dr. Mary Gibson Mary Gibson, PhD, RN, Assistant Professor and Arlene Keeling, PhD, RN, FAAN Professor School of Nursing, University of Virginia 225 Jeanette Lancaster Way Charlottesville, VA 22903 Phone: 434-924-0130 (Gibson) Meg2e@virginia.edu Phone: 434-924-5906 (Keeling) Awk2z@virginia.edu
37.4 SLEEP AND HEALTH: IMPLICATIONS FOR FAMILY AND COMMUNITY WELLNESS Due to Issue Editor: 1/5/2014 Send all manuscripts via Editorial Manager to Dr. Matthew Lee Smith Matthew Lee Smith, PhD, MPH, CHES Department of Health Promotion and Behavior College of Public Health, University of Georgia Athens, GA 30602 And Adjunct Professor, Texas A & M Health Sciences Center School of Rural Public Health And Marcia Ory, PhD, MPH Regent Professor, Social and Behavior Health, Director, Program on Healthy Aging Health Promotion and Community Health Sciences School of Rural Public Health, Texas A & M Health Science Center, 1266 TAMU College Station, TX 77843-1266 Phone (Smith): 706/542-0483; health@uga.edu and Matthew.smith@srph.tamhsc.edu Phone (Ory): 979/458-1373; 979/458-4264 (fax); mory@srph.tamhsc.edu
For more upcoming issue topics, please visit the Information for Authors page.
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Editor's Picks
Take a moment and look at these articles from issues 35.1, 35.2, 35.3, 35.4 and 36.1 of FCH. They talk about public health issues that may not be familiar to you. Each article offers new and useful information.
In 35.1 See A unique model of the community health worker: The MGH Chelsea community health improvement team.
In 35.2 take a look at Changing the face of nursing: Reducing ethnic and rasial disparities in health.
In 35.3 see the article on Cost analysis of a community-baed fall prevention program being delivered in South Florida.
In 35.4 see the article entitled Exploring the use of soical network analysis to measure social intergration among older adults in assisted living.
In 36.1 take a look at Understanding the day-to-day lives of obese children and their families.
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