Advancing Communication in Healthcare for Special Populations: Equity, Access and Empowerment

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to invite submissions to the Healthcare Special Issue, titled “Advancing Communication in Healthcare for Special Populations: Equity, Access and Empowerment”.

This Special Issue aims to address how matters regarding disease prevention, health literacy, and patient–provider communication could be addressed for better healthcare outcomes. Researchers are encouraged to submit scholarly works that address strategies that can function as tools to assist special populations in gaining access to quality healthcare and information in their respective communities. Specific groups in society might face several health issues at higher rates compared to other groups in their communities. Therefore, we seek to examine strategies in increasing positive health outcomes among people at risk for certain health issues.

In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:

• Health communication campaigns designed to target special populations.
• Research that addresses issues surrounding equity and/or accessibility to healthcare for people belonging to special populations.
• Thoughts and experiences regarding lessons learned from health literacy/education projects among special populations.
• Steps taken using health strategies, for disease prevention, to empower special populations.
• Research about health provider/patient communication that targets special populations to encourage behavioral changes and/or access to quality healthcare.
• Papers addressing theoretical models and concepts with a focus on empowering and helping special populations gain access to quality healthcare.

I look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. DaKysha Moore
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 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.

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.