Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 September 2014

Special Issue Information

This special IJERPH issue aims to advance and explore the overlap and potential synergies of integrative medicine and preventive medicine in the context of these levels of prevention by acknowledging the relative deficiency of research on the effectiveness of practice-based integrative care. This Special Issue represents an effort to capture current developments in this field and to provide a forum for cutting-edge contributions to the literature. For more information, see http://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph/special_issues/preventive_medicine.

Keywords

medicine preventive
public health
promoting health
disease prevention


This Special Issue will be fully open access. We encourage authors to send us their tentative title and short abstract to the Editorial Office (ijerph@mdpi.com) for approval. Deadline for submission of abstracts is 15 September 2014.

Manuscripts should be submitted through the online manuscript submission and editorial system at: http://www.mdpi.com/user/manuscripts/upload/

Submitted papers should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere. Please visit the Instructions for Authors before submitting a manuscript: http://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph/instructions/

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The International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH, ISSN 1660-4601) is an online, open access journal in the interdisciplinary area of environmental health sciences and public health. IJERPH is covered by leading indexing services, including PubMed (Medline) and the Science Citation Index Expanded (Web of Science). Full-text articles are also available through PubMed Central. The most recent Impact Factor for the year 2012 is 1.998.

In case of questions, please contact the Editorial Office at: ijerph@mdpi.com