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ATTN: Women's Health Issues Subscribers
In past years, the Jacobs Institute of Women's Health offered discount subscriptions to Women's Health Issues to individuals and institutions who donated money at certain levels to the JIWH. Please note that we are no longer offering these discounted subscriptions to Women's Health Issues.
We welcome, of course, donations to support our work. Donations in any amount are tax deductible within the guidelines of form 501(c)(3) nonprofit educational contributions. To make a donation to JIWH, please visit:
http://www.jiwh.org/content.cfm?sectionid=69
If you would like to subscribe to Women's Health Issues, please visit Elsevier, Inc., our publisher's site at http://whijournal.com.
Thank you for your support!
WOMEN'S HEALTH ISSUES
Official Publication of the
Jacobs Institute of Women's Health
2021 K Street NW, Suite 800
Washington, DC 20006
Women's Health Issues is the peer-reviewed, bimonthly, multidisciplinary journal of the Jacobs Institute of Women's Health. It publishes original research, rigorous scientifically-based review articles, and invited editorials and commentaries related to women's health care and policy. The journal gives priority to scholarly articles that report the results of original research and that improve understanding of how social, health care, and policy factors relate to women's health.
Women's Health Issues 2-year 2008 impact factor is 1.773. It is ranked 2nd out of 29 journals in the Women's Studies category of the Journal Citation Reports published by Thomson Scientific. The 2008 5-year impact factor is 2.224, ranking it 1st out of 29 journals in the Women’s Studies category.
All manuscripts are subject to peer-review under the direction of the editors. The decision of whether to peer-review a manuscript is made in the Editorial Office. Published manuscripts are abstracted and indexed in leading services, including Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, EMBASE/Excerpta Medica, Index Medicus, ISI's Current Contents/Social & Behavioral Sciences Research Alert and Social SciSearch, Sociological Abstracts, and Studies on Women Abstracts. Unsolicited manuscripts are invited that address women's health issues relating to the mission of the journal. Further information is available at www.jiwh.org. The Journal is available online at whijournal.com and on www.ScienceDirect.com.
WHI invites manuscripts reporting the results of original research on topics in women's health care and policy related to diverse health conditions and issues. The Journal is particularly interested in receiving original manuscripts that contribute to our understanding of:
- Racial/ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in women's access to services and use of health services
- Rural women's health and health care patterns
- Patient and provider factors affecting women's screening and preventive services
- Women's access to, and use of, health information sources
- Providers' awareness of gender-based evidence for preventive and treatment practices
- Organizational, provider, and patient determinants of quality of care for women
- Agenda-setting and implementation of policies related to women's health and health care
- Evaluation of integrated health care programs for women
- Timely, relevant, and original, health services and health policy analyses of women's health issues
Questions about the appropriateness of a topic for Women's Health Issues may be directed to the editor at WHIeditor@gwu.edu.
MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION
For detailed Author Instructions regarding manuscript preparation, please visit Author Instructions.
Online Electronic Submission: If you wish to submit a manuscript or commentary to be considered for publication, you must do so via the Journal’s submission/peer-review website (http://ees.elsevier.com/whi). You will be asked to create a unique login ID (free). Once created, your login stays in the system permanently. Please follow the instructions regarding file format submission of your manuscript, abstract, tables, and figures. We ask that you submit your manuscript (abstract through references and any figure legends) as a Microsoft Office Word file, with the title page saved as a separate file. Figures and tables must be uploaded as separate files. If you have multiple figures, consider compressing them into one .zip file for easier upload. A tutorial for authors is available at the website and online technical assistance provided by Elsevier is available (authorsupport@elsevier.com). You will be able to track the status of your manuscript online throughout the entire editorial process. You will also communicate with the Editorial Office via the website.
Please note that Elsevier's Online Electronic Submission is the method preferred by the Editorial Office. Use of Elsevier's Online System will expedite editorial decisions and communications with authors.
Hard Copy and Disk Submission: We do not accept submissions by hard copy only. Manuscripts submitted in hard copy must be submitted with an electronic copy in Microsoft Office Word format on disk. The hard copy and electronic copy must match exactly.
If you do not have Internet access, manuscripts and disks may be delivered to the following address:
Anne R. Markus, JD, PhD
Editor, Women's Health Issues
Jacobs Institute of Women's Health
2021 K Street, NW, Suite 800
Washington, DC 20006
For detailed Author Instructions regarding manuscript preparation, please visit Author Instructions.
For copyright permission, please contact our publisher, Elsevier Inc., at HealthPermissions@elsevier.com or by fax at 215-238-2239.
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