Health Communication & Information

As an outlet for scholarly intercourse between medical and social sciences, this noteworthy journal seeks to improve practical communication between caregivers and patients and between institutions and the public. All research published is grounded in communication theory.

Innovative research, interventions and perspectives on health communication in all areas of healthcare, public health, global health and medicine.

Global in scope, the journal seeks to advance a synergistic relationship between research and practical information. With a focus on promoting the health literacy of the individual, caregiver, provider, community, and those in the health policy, the journal presents research, progress in areas of technology and public health, ethics, politics and policy, and the application of health communication principles.

It publishes articles in the areas of prevention research, teaching, practice and policy. Original research is published on interventions aimed at the prevention of chronic and acute disease and the promotion of individual and community health.

The mission of the Journal is to advance public health research, policy, practice, and education.

The journal integrates the academic and clinical aspects of quality and safety in healthcare by encouraging academics to create evidence and knowledge valued by clinicians and clinicians to value using evidence and knowledge to improve quality.

Publishes research and commentary on critical health issues of interest to a broad range of professionals whose work involves understanding factors associated with health behavior and evidence-based social and behavioral strategies to improve health status.

Focusses on emerging technologies in health, medicine, and biomedical research. JMIR was the first open access journal covering health informatics, and the first international scientific peer-reviewed journal on all aspects of research, information and communication in the healthcare field using Internet and Internet-related technologies.

Contains critical reviews of literature on organizational structure, economics, and the financing of health and medical care systems. MCRR also includes original empirical and theoretical research and trends to enable policy makers to make informed decisions, as well as to identify health care trends.

Dedicated to presenting solely the patient's perspective. The journal is published by Adis in collaboration with the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

The Health Communication Science Digest is a monthly offering of selected journal articles, which feature emerging health communication and marketing science. The Digest provides easy access to recently published articles and reports with particular relevance for the public health communication community.

Articles endeavor to ask questions about the diverse and complex issues that interest communication scholars.
The journal especially welcomes questions that bridge boundaries traditionally separating scholars within the communication discipline and that address issues of clear theoretical, conceptual, methodological, and/or social importance.

Covers the field of communication studies and explores the processes, antecedents, and consequences of communication in a broad range of societal systems.

The journal works to advance understanding of human symbolic processes with a strong emphasis on theory-driven research, the development of new theoretical models in communication, and the development of innovative methods for observing and measuring communication behavior.

Examines the philosophical, theoretical, and applied nature of strategic communication, which encompasses “all communication that is substantial for the survival and sustained success of an entity. Specifically, strategic communication is the purposeful use of communication by an organization or other entity to engage in conversations of strategic significance to its goals.“

Concentrates on communication research, practice, policy, and theory, bringing to its readers the latest, broadest, and most important findings in the field of communication studies.

Engages in discussions of the issues arising from the scale and speed of new media development, drawing from disciplinary perspectives and on both theoretical and empirical research.

Covers topics in the popular perception of science, the role of science in society, philosophy of science, science education, and science in public policy.

An international, interdisciplinary social science journal that examines the nature of expertise, the diffusion of knowledge, and the communication of science and technology among professionals and to the public. SC addresses theoretical and pragmatic questions central to some of today's most vigorous political and social debates.