Health disparities
- Submission status
- Closed
- Submission deadline
Health disparities or health inequalities are preventable differences in health outcomes in groups or populations as a result of social structure, access to services and infrastructure, disease burden, and lifestyle and habit. The Covid-19 pandemic highlighted how such disparities had adverse effects on disease outcomes calling for clinical research to take these kinds of considerations when advocating for treatment of diseases. In support of bringing such research to the forefront, Scientific Reports welcomes submissions to a Collection on Health disparities. The collection welcomes primary research on health inequity including disparities accentuated by gender, race and ethnicity, health in LMICs, healthcare inequity and bias and finally combating health disparities towards health equity. The collection welcomes epidemiology studies, systematic reviews, interventional and clinical studies addressing topics of health disparities including studies on health disparities itself.
Editors
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Amrita Daftary
York University, School of Global Health, Canada
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Joseph L. Graves Jr
Department of Biology, North Carolina A&T State University, USA
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Olanrewaju Oladimeji
Department of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, Walter Sisulu University, South Africa
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Aleksandra M. Rogowska
Institute of Psychology, University of Opole, Poland
Submitting a paper for consideration
To submit your manuscript for consideration at Scientific Reports as part of this Collection, please follow the steps detailed on this page. On the first page of our online submission system, under “I’m submitting:” select the option “any other article type”. Once logged in you can submit your manuscript to a Collection by selecting “Guest Edited Collection”, under the “Choose the appropriate manuscript type” message, and clicking “Continue”. Then when filling out the manuscript information, select the "Health disparities" Collection from the alphabetical list on the “Springer Nature Subject Category” tab. Authors should express their interest in the Collection in their cover letter.
Accepted papers are published on a rolling basis as soon as they are ready.
In addition to papers on Health disparities, Scientific Reports welcomes all original research in the field of Health sciences. To browse our latest articles in Health sciences, click here.
