Call for Papers: Reducing Health Disparities Among Youth: Promising Strategies

SOPHE is set to publish a supplement of Health Promotion Practice in collaboration with CDC’s Division of Adolescent and School Health. This supplement will feature practice-based programs, interventions and projects that have been successful in reducing disparities affecting children and adolescents, including social determinants of health. In particular, manuscripts are sought that address HIV/AIDs, immunizations, as well as risk factors for chronic conditions such as obesity, physical activity, diabetes, and asthma. Papers are sought that include innovative approaches to institutional supports, policy/advocacy and systems change, community/school health partnerships, engaging parents or peers, changing norms, and health communications programs and uses of various technological systems (e.g. games, avatars, cell phones, YouTube, social networking sites). Articles should describe what was unique and successful about these programmatic activities, what partners were brought to the table, the challenges and opportunities associated with this approach, any health outcome data associated with the change in policy and/or practice, and efforts to make these changes sustainable.

All manuscripts must be submitted no later than March 1, 2009 to SOPHE’s online journal submission system: Editorial Manager.
Guidelines for authors can be found at: http://www.sagepub.com/upm-data/15040_HPP_Submission_Guidelines.pdf.

For more information, contact Carmen Head (chead@sophe.org) or Laura Drouillard (ldrouillard@sophe.org).