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Scope of Interests
Our primary topics of interest are:
- Prevention, screening, surveillance, and population-based intervention
of specific diseases, including but not limited to arthritis, asthma,
cancer, depression, diabetes, obesity, and cardiovascular disease.
- Mental health.
- Oral health.
- Reproductive health.
- Injury prevention and control.
- Health risk behavior.
- Comprehensive, multidisciplinary
approaches to disease prevention and health promotion at various levels:
national, state, community, work, and school.
- Effects on public health of
non-health factors, such as economics, social mores, housing, environment,
insurance, and medical systems.
- Effects on health of such factors as
nutrition, physical activity, substance abuse (including tobacco, alcohol,
and other drugs), and genetics.
- Health issues and disparities affecting
specific populations: racial, ethnic, adolescent, adult, maternal, aging, gender-related,
health-vulnerable, urban, rural, and others.
- The value of policy and
legislation in preventing chronic disease.
- Applied qualitative and
quantitative research into the prevention and control of chronic disease.
- Public health tools and techniques, such as multimedia communication,
surveys, theoretical models, biostatistics, and interactive educational
tools.
Occasionally, we will publish a special issue on one topic, usually with
a guest editor.
Inquiries about the suitability of proposed articles may be
sent to the editor by fax at 770-488-8635 or via e-mail at pcdeditor@cdc.gov.
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