The 20th Anniversary of IJERPH
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2025 | Viewed by 3817
Special Issue Editor
Interests: environmental health and diseases; gene-environment interactions; environmental toxicology, mutagenesis and carcinogenesis; environmental epidemiology and disease control; health risk assessment and management; ecological risk assessment and management; environmental chemistry and computational toxicology; environmental genomics and proteomics; environmental medicine; and natural resources damage assessment and management
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This year (2024), we are celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH, ISSN 1660-4601). Hence, we are organizing a Special Issue to commemorate this important milestone. During the past 20 years, IJERPH has significantly contributed to scientific advancements in the multidisciplinary field of environmental and public health sciences. As such, IJERPH will continue to serve as a forum wherein novel discoveries are widely shared with the scientific community and the general public at large.
This 20th anniversary Special Issue is designed to highlight the excellence in scientific publishing that embodies the mission and supports the vision of IJERPH. In close alignment with the recently updated scope and specific aims of IJERPH, this Special Issue focuses on the transdisciplinary nature of environmental research and public health, and the publication of innovative research findings that promote human health and well-being and improve our collective quality of life.
To help celebrate this important event, we warmly invite you to submit original research papers, comprehensive review articles, and/or short communications from research that address relevant aspects of biological, socio-behavioral, and/or environmental determinants of health for peer-review and possible publication in this Special Issue. We expect that this Special Issue will attract considerable attention, as we prepare to celebrate the excellent scientific contributions and socio-economic impact of IJERPH from the past 20 years.
Prof. Dr. Paul B. Tchounwou
Guest Editor
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- global health
- health care sciences
- behavioral and mental health
- infectious diseases, chronic diseases and disease prevention
- exercise and health-related quality of life
- environmental health
- environmental sciences
Planned Papers
The below list represents only planned manuscripts. Some of these manuscripts have not been received by the Editorial Office yet. Papers submitted to MDPI journals are subject to peer-review.
Title: Adaptation of Remote Patient Blood Pressure Monitoring Intervention to Improve Cardiovascular Health and Decrease Maternal Mortality Among Black Women and Birthing Persons
Authors: Loral Patchen; Asli McCullers; Serenity Budd; Joseph Blumenthal; W. Douglas Evans
Affiliation: MedStar Health Research Institute, Hyattsville, MD 20782
Abstract: Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of maternal death among Black women in the United States. A large, urban hospital system will adopt remote patient blood pressure monitoring (RBPM) to increase blood pressure monitoring and improve management of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP) by reducing time to diagnosis of HDP. The digital platform integrates with the electronic health record (EHR), automatically populating RBPM readings to the patients’ chart; communicates elevated blood pressure values to the health care team; and offers partial off-set of cost through insurance plans. It also allows customization of blood pressure values that prompt follow-up to the patients’ risk category. Objective one measures the effect of the digitally supported RBPM on time to diagnosis of HDP. Objective two tests the effect of cultural tailoring, which may achieve greater equity by promoting social identification with the platform. The ability to tailor digital content provides the opportunity to test the added value of promoting social identification with the intervention, which may help achieve equity in severe maternal morbidity events related to HDP. Thus, the implementation and evaluation of this intervention will contribute to the growing literature on digital health to improve maternity care in the United States.
Title: Public Health: The Interactive and Equitable Environment for the Thriving of Developing Persons.
Authors: Jeanette A. Lawrence 1, Agnes E. Dodds 2
Affiliation: 1 Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Vic 3010, Australia; 2 Melbourne Medical School, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Vic 3010, Australia
Abstract: Public health and wellbeing is inter-dependent with the health and wellbeing of all developing persons in the sociocultural environment, so that to promote public health is tied to the promotion of individuals within the society. Inter-dependency, co-activity and systemic relations dynamically impact the wellbeing of a society. Societal equity and institutional support impact personal thriving and development throughout the whole of the life-course in interaction with social institutions. In this paper, we will present a relational developmental analysis of the inter-dependency of two systems: the public health system and the living system of developing human persons. We present a model of the distribution of personal responses to environmental challenges, ranging from decline through survival to resilience and thriving. We illustrate relational interdependence specifically for marginalized populations, e.g., victims of abuse and refugees. We argue that interdependency and co-activity constitute the appropriate environment for promoting public health as an equitable system and for promoting personalized health as thriving that encompasses personal and societal development and success. The transdisciplinary approach is framed in contemporary developmental science that contextualizes individual development in interacting proximal and distal environmental systems.
Keywords: public health, developmental science, behavioral and mental health, environmental sciences
