Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2015


Guest Editors
Dr. Jenine K. Harris
George Warren Brown School of Social Work Washington University in St. Louis St. Louis, MO 63130, USA

Dr. Douglas A. Luke
Center for Public Health Systems Science George Warren Brown School of Social Work Washington University in St. Louis St. Louis, MO, 63112, USA


Special Issue Information

Friends, family, co-workers, and other social connections influence our individual health behaviors and health outcomes. Relationships among public health organizations are also key to the diffusion, dissemination, and implementation of public health programs and policies. Understanding connections among people and organizations can provide new insights into the factors that influence health and the diffusion or dissemination of programs and policies that improve (or fail to improve) public health. In this Special Issue, we will highlight social network methods and approaches to understanding and improving the networks that influence health. We are interested in submissions relevant to public health policy, health behavior, and health outcomes. We also encourage submissions on the diffusion or dissemination of evidence-based public health information, programs, and policies, and on network analytic strategies that can inform the dissemination and implementation of evidence-based public health.


Keywords

network analysis
public health
systems science
dissemination
diffusion
health behavior
health policy
health outcomes
contagion
implementation science


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.

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. All submitted papers will
undergo a rigorous review process and be published online as soon as acceptance. 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 2013 is 1.993.