2nd Edition of Perspective Expanded: Healthcare from the Perspectives of Patients, Actors, and System Users

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue on “Health Care from Patients' Perspective” will focus on patients’ perspectives as experts, on their challenges and healthcare-related experiences embedded in a biopsychosocial framework. Research on experiences regarding health, health care, but also illness will build the core of this issue by focussing on qualitative research methods mainly from patients’ perspectives and or their corresponding surroundings. They will not only provide insights into complex healthcare situations, ethical related questions but also into patient-centered challenges as a possible starting point for improving healthcare systems and or policy. An interprofessional perspective on health care providers, family members, or key caregivers of patients, clients, and users are most welcome. In addition, we are hoping for contributions from the medical humanities, and topics on community health including health literacy. 

This Special Issue offers an opportunity to publish high-quality papers on health and illness narratives to health-related topics based on qualitative research methods including participatory research methodology from the whole spectrum of care as health promotion, prevention, chronic diseases, rehabilitation, or palliative care. We also welcome high-quality systematic and scoping reviews, protocol papers, position statements related to these matters, short communications as well as discussion papers. I would be pleased if this Special Issue serves as a trigger for the provision of insightful data for the design of teaching relevant studies based on narratives that are implemented in study programs on health care professionals such as therapists, nurses, midwives, medicine and other professions.

You may choose our Joint Special Issue in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

Prof. Dr. Andrea Glässel
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 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. Healthcare is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly 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 2700 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.

• patient experiences
• illness narratives
• chronic disease
• health promotion
• prevention
• rehabilitation
• qualitative research methods
• participatory research
• biopsychosocial perspective
• user perspective