New name: Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada: Research, Policy and Practice
In order to better reflect the current breadth of the journal content (disease prevention, health promotion and health equity in the areas of chronic diseases, injuries and life course health), a decision has been made to change the journal's name to Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada: Research, Policy and Practice. The scope of articles (disease prevention, health promotion and health equity in the areas of chronic diseases, injuries and life course health) remains the same.
Journal mandate
Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada: Research, Policy and Practice (the HPCDP Journal) is the monthly, online scientific journal of the Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention Branch of the Public Health Agency of Canada. The journal publishes articles on disease prevention, health promotion and health equity in the areas of chronic diseases, injuries and life course health. Content includes research from fields such as public/community health, epidemiology, biostatistics, the behavioural and social sciences, and health services or economics.
The journal fosters collaboration between researchers, public health practitioners, health policy planners and related community professionals. It especially welcomes articles resulting from a substantive collaboration with the Public Health Agency or Health Canada, through co-authorship (including with staff from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research), funding or use of Public Health Agency or Health Canada dataFootnote 1. The journal also welcomes external articles by provincial or territorial government/public health agency authors that contain analysis of Canadian provincial and/or territorial data.
The journal will continue to maintain its high scientific credibility through central inclusion of external associate scientific editors and peer reviewers, as well as an Editorial Board with more than half of its members external to the government. These external advisors will continue to contribute their expertise to review papers and ensure that the work published in the journal is of high quality and expands upon the latest pan-Canadian knowledge in this field.
Submissions are selected based on scientific quality, national public health relevance, clarity, conciseness and technical accuracy.