Community-Based Strategies to Tackle Health Disparities and Promote Equity
A special issue of Healthcare (ISSN 2227-9032). This special issue belongs to the section "Community Care".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 August 2026
Special Issue Editor
Interests: health equity; community engagement; population health; mortality; morbidity
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Special Issue Information
Dear colleagues,
We invite you to submit your research to our Special Issue, entitled “Community-Based Strategies to Tackle Health Disparities and Promote Equity”. This Special Issue will promote health equity through the lens of effective, efficient, and generalizable strategies.
This Special Issue’s purpose is to draw attention to the great research being conducted regarding populations impacted by dire health issues that result in negative health outcomes. Submissions will be novel and sustainable, identifying key strategies that can be successful and significant on a general platform.
This Special Issue will promote strategies that impact diverse populations in order to promote health equity and population health. Though this Special Issue has a specific focus area, it lies within the scope of Healthcare, a journal aimed at promoting healthcare insights across the spectrum of diseases and patient population.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following: health equity, population health, longitudinal evaluations of lifestyles and health outcomes, community engagement efforts, and cost-effectiveness analyses, along with feasibility studies.
I look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Panagis Galiatsatos
Guest Editor
Dr. Panagis Galiatsatos
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.
Keywords
- health equity
- community engagement
- population health
- mortality
- morbidity
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