Family & Community Health

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.
• Up-coming issue themes and contact information for issue editors are in the section for authors
• A preview of the next issue so you can see what to watch for
• New options for delivering articles that include an enhanced HTML format for easier reading.
• New ways to customize the site, including saved searches, personal article collections, e-mail and RSS alerts, and more.

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".

To use these features, all you need to do is register.  Click on the “Register” button located at the top right corner of the website. Then enter your subscriber account number that is located on your journal label just above your name. Now you will have full, unrestricted access to all the site’s easy-to-use features. If you have already registered, then all you have to do is log in as your have always done to begin taking advantage of all the new features.

Jeanette Lancaster, PhD, RN, FAAN
Editor

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.

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.

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.

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.