Journal of Primary Care & Community Health
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Journal of Primary Care & Community Health (JPC) is a peer-reviewed open access journal which focusses on the study, practice, impact and outcomes of primary care services and community health programs. Please see the Aims and Scope tab for further information.
This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
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Publication in the journal is subject to payment of an article processing charge (APC). The APC serves to support the journal and ensures that articles are freely accessible online in perpetuity under a Creative Commons licence.
The APC for this journal is currently to 2800 USD.
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This journal changed its publication mode from subscription to open access in 2016.
Journal of Primary Care and Community Health publishes peer-reviewed articles about the practice, impact and outcomes of primary care services and community health programs. The Journal provides a forum for the exchange of new information as well as to bridge the gap between medicine and public health at the grass-roots level, where primary care and community work hand in hand.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
• Accessibility of services and programs to vulnerable groups
• Health Equity
• Delivery of screening tests
• Compliance with medications
• Unplanned return visits, referral to specialists or avoidable hospital admissions
• Informatics in primary care
• Over-use of primary care or community health services
• Client or patient satisfaction
• Change in knowledge, attitudes or intended behavior
• Change of a lifestyle change program
• Cost per client of community health interventions compared to alternatives. Targeted behaviors
• might be unprotected sexual activity, abuse of drugs or alcohol, over-eating, physical activity, obesity, smoking or other health risks.
• Change in morbidity, such as reduced infection rates, reduced rates of low birth weight deliveries, reduced prematurity, and reduced infant mortality
• Change in self-rated health, disability and/or frequent mental distress (FMD)
• Health Literacy
• Patient-provider communication
• Community health communication
• Qualitative and Quantitative Methodologies
• Retrospective multivariate analysis of electronic medical records.
• Studies of one medical care system are welcome, as well as population-based studies.
• Rigorous systematic reviews are of interest to our readers.
• Quasi-experimental studies of community health programs also are encouraged.
| Kurt Angstman, MD | Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA |
| Gregory M. Garrison, MD | Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA |
| Meghan Theofiles, MD | Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA |
| James E. Rohrer, PhD | Walden University, Minneapolis, MN, USA |
| Ahmed A. Arif, MBBS, PhD, CPH, FACE | University of North Carolina, Charlotte, NC, USA |
| Mario Schootman, PhD | University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, USA |
| Jayasree Basu, PhD | National Institute of ENT, Dhaka, Bangladesh |
| Abdulbari Bener, PhD, FFPH, FRSS | Istanbul Medipol University, Istanbul, Turkey |
| Jeanette M. Daly, RN, PhD | University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA |
| Claudia Der-Martirosian, PhD | U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, USA |
| Yusuf Cetin Doganer, MD | University of Health Sciences, Gulhane Medical Faculty, Ankara, Turkey |
| Michael L. Grover, D.O. | Mayo Clinic, Phoenix, AZ, USA |
| Jodi Holtrop, PhD, CHES | University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA |
| Barcey T. Levy, PhD, MD | University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA |
| Brian Lynch, MD | Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA |
| Meghna Mansukhani, MD | Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA |
| Christina Marini, MPH | Adelphi University Garden City, NY, USA |
| Daniel Nagel, RN, PhD | University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada |
| Kenneth Nugent, MD | Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, TX, USA |
| José A. Pagán, PhD | New York University, New York, NY, USA |
| Patrick Palmieri, DHSc, DPhil (Hon), EdS, MBA, MSN, PGDip(Oxon), ACNP, RN, CPHRM, CPHQ, FACHE, FISQu | Norbert Wiener Private University, Lima, Peru |
| Shailendra Prasad, MD, MPH | University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA |
| Tamim Rajjo, MD, MPH | Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA |
| Kathleen Rice, PhD | McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada |
| Robert Rick PhD, MPH, PE | Minnesota State, Takoda Institute, Minneapolis |
| Michael Schirmer, MD | Swiss Federal Research Institute (WSL), Birmensdorf, Switzerland |
| Zuzana Segev | Nefesh Psychiatry LLC, Daytona Beach, FL, United States |
| Yogarabindranath Swarna Nantha | Monash University Clinical School, Malaysia |
| Jim Warren, PhD | University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand |
| Lara Weinstein, MD, MPH | Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA |
| Barbara Yawn, MD | University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA |
| Anjali Khakharia, M.B.B.S., M.S. | Department of Geriatrics and Gerontology, School of Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA |
| Toheeb Mustapha, PhD(c), MPH | University of Louisville, Louisville, USA |