Systems Practice in Public Health

Dear Colleagues,

Calls to expand the application of complexity science and systems thinking in public health efforts have been increasing rapidly over the last decade. However, these calls have translated into few practical applications, particularly on knowledge transfer and policy. Furthermore, only a limited range of complexity and systems concepts and methods are being currently mobilised by those dedicated to improving the public’s health.

This Special Issue helps to address these two gaps by (a) providing a dedicated space for examples of systems practice in public health and (b) encouraging the submission of works that provide new insights on how complexity and systems concepts and methods can be used to understand and address public health issues.

Contributors are invited to present works that contain a strong practical application component regardless of the methodological approach used (e.g., case studies, modelling, surveys, experiments), providing it is adequate to investigate or intervene in complex systems. Examples of topics of interest related to systems practice in public health include, but are not limited to:

• Urban health;
• Health inequalities;
• Health-related behaviours;
• Methodological advances in systems practice in public health.
• Non-communicable diseases;
• Infectious diseases;
• Healthy ageing;
• Social determinants of health;
• Health policy and Health in All Policies;
• Health care services;

Pre-submission inquires to the guest editors are welcome.

Dr. Leandro Garcia
Dr. Ruth Hunter
Dr. Jason Thompson
Guest Editors

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. Systems is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly 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 2400 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.