Promoting Health Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion for Minoritized Youth

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to invite submissions for a Special Issue in ‘Youth’ titled “Promoting Health Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion for Minoritized Youth”. This Special Issue aims to highlight the groundbreaking scholarship focused on the inclusion of diverse and minoritized youth to achieve various types of health equity. Research is encouraged from fields, including, but not limited to, social work, public health, education, psychology, sociology, and medicine. 

The purpose of this Special Issue is to showcase research and other scholarly works that demonstrate innovative approaches to promote and/or pursue various types of health equity and inclusion for minoritized youth. Issues of health equity can be related to health disparities among minoritized youth, barriers that prevent the achievement of positive health outcomes among diverse youth, social determinants that influence health outcomes, and innovative interventions that promote health equity by addressing contemporary and historical health injustices that impact minoritized youth. Minority status can be reflected in various ways for this Special Issue, including, but not limited to, racial/ethnic, gender, sexual orientation, and social class. Studies and commentaries that utilize critical, antiracist, social justice, and/or inter-/transdisciplinary frameworks are strongly encouraged. Manuscripts that reflect deep thinking and/or critique of practices, policies, language, culture, and politics that influence the pursuit of health equity among minoritized are also encouraged.

For this Special Issue, original research articles, reviews, short communications, technical reports, commentaries, case studies, and book reviews are welcome.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Kristian V. Jones
Dr. Theresa Melton
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 double-anonymized peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Youth is an international peer-reviewed open access quarterly 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 1200 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.