Manuscripts should be received by October 1, 2011.

Call for Papers

The interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal Family & Community Health (FCH) will produce a Special Issue on Evidence-Based Programs (EBP) related to health. Article submissions are due to the Guest Issue Coeditors by October 1, 2011. Submitted articles will undergo an independent double-blind peer-review.

Please submit original manuscripts electronically to [email protected] with title pages separate from the actual manuscript to facilitate the blind-review process.

Articles about EBP related to health are being solicited, which recognize or investigate issues impacting health across the full age continuum. This special issue is not soliciting papers on the development or evaluation of new programs. Rather, for the purposes of this Call for Papers, EBP will be defined as programs that have been tested and shown effective, and whose findings have been published in the peer-reviewed literature.

Examples of specific topics to be considered include, but are not limited to:

* Assessments of essential components and processes underlying EBP

* Adaptations of EBP for unique populations

* Enhancements to the reach and adoption of EBP for participants and/or delivery sites

* Evaluations of EBP effectiveness at the individual, organizational, or community level

* Correlates and processes associated with EBP sustainability

Family & Community Health focuses on health care practitioners regardless of area of practice. The journal's common goal is to provide a forum to discuss a holistic approach to family and community health care and primary health care, including health promotion and disease prevention. Each issue of FCH focuses on a specific topic that can be used by faculty, practitioners, and students in a range of health care disciplines.

Family & Community Health is indexed in the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL); Current contents/social and behavioral sciences; research alert; social scisearch; Family Studies Database; Health Promotion and Education Database; Cancer Prevention and Control Database; Nursing Abstracts; Psychological Abstracts; PsychINFO; PsysLIT; Journals@ovid; Sociological Abstracts; Social Planning/Policy and Development Abstracts; MEDLINE; MEDLARS; and Index Medicus.

For further information about the journal or to access the Author Guide on the Family & Community Health Web site at http://www.familyandcommunityhealth.com.

-Marcia G. Ory, PhD, MPH

Matthew Lee Smith, PhD, MPH, CHES

Guest Issue Co-Editors