About the Journal

Journal of Public Health and Primary Care (JPHC), a publication of the Institute of Family Medicine and Primary Care (iFMPC), is a peer-reviewed print + online 3 Issues journal. The journal's full text is available online at http://www.jssrp.org. The journal allows free access (Open Access) to its contents. It permits authors to self-archive the final accepted version of the articles on any OAI-compliant institutional / subject-based repository.

Aims of the Journal
Historically, public health and primary care have shared a common goal of a healthy population. There is a complex interaction between Public Health and Primary Care. The Journal of Public Health and Primary Care (JPHPC) aims to close the gap between Public Health (PH) and Primary Care (PC) through integration. JPHPC also acts as an interactive forum for primary care providers, policymakers, health care administrators, community leaders, social scientists, health care funding agencies towards the provision of cost-effective, personalized, continued, comprehensive, holistic form of health care to individuals, families, and communities.

Abstracting and Indexing Information

The journal is registered with the following abstracting partners:
Baidu Scholar, CNKI (China National Knowledge Infrastructure), EBSCO Publishing's Electronic Databases, Ex Libris – Primo Central, Google Scholar, Hinari, Infotrieve, Netherlands ISSN centre, ProQuest, TDNet, Wanfang Data

Journal Ethics

Wolters Kluwer and Journal/Association are committed to meeting and upholding standards of ethical behavior at all stages of the publication process. We follow closely the industry associations, such as the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) and World Association of Medical Editors (WAME), that set standards and provide guidelines for best practices in order to meet these requirements. For a summary of our specific policies regarding duplicate publication, conflicts of interest, patient consent, etc., please visit www.Medknow.com/EthicalGuidelines.asp

Open Access Publication and Creative Commons Licensing

This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.

Digital Archiving

Wolters Kluwer Medknow provides for long-term digital preservation through two primary partnerships, Portico and CLOCKSS.

Portico is a leading digital preservation service worldwide. The content is preserved as an archival version and is not publically accessible via Portico, but is provided when required under specific conditions, such as discontinuation of the collection or catastrophic failure of the website.

CLOCKSS will enable any library to maintain their own archive of content from Wolters Kluwer Medknow and other publishers, with minimal technical effort and using cheaply available hardware.

Ahead of Print policy

Articles published online under the Ahead of Print model are considered published and can be cited and quoted using the DOI as the reference source. Wolters Kluwer Medknow has a policy that changes will not be made after publication of an article without following accepted procedures for making corrections to the scientific record.

Advertisements

While advertisements are crucial to this journal to be able to keep all content free for everyone, ethical considerations are in place to ensure the integrity of the journal and its content:

• "Pop-up" and "banner" ads appear on a random, rotating basis. The advertiser has no control or input over the pages where their ads appear.
• The Editorial Board has full and final approval over the content of all advertisements.
• Advertisers will never be shown any manuscripts or other content prior to publication.

Public Health (PH) is a multidisciplinary domain, defined as "the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health through the society' organized efforts." The multifaceted functions of public health provide the necessary tools to improve health through health promotion, protection, and disease prevention at population and individual levels. Primary care (PC) providers have been principally focused on the individual's health, but are increasingly oriented to responding to the health of the communities they serve. Barbara Starfield has defined primary care as "the first level of contact with the health system to promote health, prevent illness, care for common illnesses, and manage on-going health problems."

Primary Care (PC) and Primary Health Care (PHC) are very similar terms that are often employed interchangeably; however, they derive from different assumptions and premises and carry different connotations. Primary Care describes the concept of "family doctor" and services delivered to individuals. The academic specialty is known as Family Medicine or General Practice. Whereas 'Primary Health Care' originated from the 1978 Alma-Ata Declaration and describes not only a level of care, but a more comprehensive approach, emphasizing universal coverage, accessibility, comprehensive care, disease prevention, and health promotion, intersectoral action, and community and individual involvement (WHO, 1978).

The current service model needs to integrate key public health functions and interventions into primary care services. Primary care is the backbone of any effective public health system that aims for better population health. In settings where primary care has been effectively deployed and supported with adequate training and resources, family physicians and primary care teams only refer around five percent of patients from consultations onto secondary care. Countries more oriented to primary care have populations with better health and services delivered at a lower cost.

Who can submit

JPHPC is a multidisciplinary journal inviting healthcare professionals from various backgrounds interested in interplay of public health and primary care. Public health professionals, primary care practitioners, professionals of primary care specialties such general internal medicine, OBG, pediatrics, geriatrics, palliative care, healthcare administrators, nursing professionals, specialists with engagement in primary care, members of clinical and nonclinical teams are welcome to submit their work.

Scholars of all applied sciences, broad specialties, subspecialties, and other professionals are welcome to publish their research and findings towards an interdisciplinary dialogue for better health outcomes. The manuscripts may belong to basic, fundamental, applied, and clinical sciences.

APC: Article Processing Fee
There is no submission fee, processing fee, or publication fee applicable to this journal. Submission and free access publication are entirely free of charge.

The First Issue: Make a Mark in History - The first issue of any journal is a historical opportunity to make a mark in the given research domain. The scope and domain of this journal are unique. Students, trainees, residents, researchers, faculty are invited to contribute to this entirely new knowledge domain and its development right from the beginning.

Institute of Family Medicine and Primary Care - iFMPC

iFMPC (www.ifmpc.org) is an organization dedicated to the strengthening of community-based primary healthcare services. The institute's vision is to promote international standard scholarship, training, education, and research within primary care in the urban, rural, and remote contexts. The institute facilitates a generalist as well as a multidisciplinary approach. The ongoing projects include pre-hospital clinical services and digital healthcare products. One of the institute's objectives is to engage with independent primary care researchers and encourage them for community-based research projects. iFMPC supports primary care scholarship through micro-grant research projects as an intervention towards academic resource development within the academic disciplines of Family Medicine and Primary Care. The institute supports the prioritization of Primary Care and Family Medicine as academic disciplines internationally. iFMPC collaborates with national and international academic departments and universities. The institute has established various publication projects to expand the scholoristic space and professional domain of primary care.

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