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Scandinavian Journal of Public Health

Scandinavian Journal of Public Health

Published on Behalf of the Associations of Public Health in the Nordic Countries

eISSN: 16511905 | ISSN: 14034948 | Current volume: 52 | Current issue: 1S Frequency: 8 Times/Year


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The Scandinavian Journal of Public Health is an international forum of Nordic as well as international public health research and policy. This peer-reviewed journal will be of interest to researchers and practitioners in academia, government and health care working in the fields of social medicine, epidemiology, public health, health services research and preventive medicine.

"The Public Health system in the Nordic countries is well known worldwide and the wealth of population based health registers provides unique research opportunities. Readers with an interest in public health systems and population based epidemiology should turn to the Scandinavian Journal of Public Health to keep track on what research is done and what research can be done." Jorn Olsen, Professor and Chair, Dept of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, UCLA, Los Angeles

"The Scandinavian Journal of Public Health is extremely useful for public health provisionals in many settings. Not only does it reflect the wide range of high quality research conducted in Scandinavian countries but frequently also reports on research in developing settings. The editorials often provide key discussion points for teaching public health and the in-depth insights of the supplements frequently address cutting edge issues in current public health thinking." Professor Krisela Steyn, Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town, South Africa.

The Editorial Board is always looking for good quality articles on all aspects of public health for publication. If you are an author who wishes to submit an article for publication, or if you wish to join our panel of peer reviewers and help maintain the high quality of our publication, please contact the Editorial Office at: sjpheditorial@sagepub.com


This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

While SJPH has mostly published peer-reviewed original articles (both qualitative and quantitative), short reports and commentaries in the past, we also welcome literature reviews (for which the word limit is increased to 6000 words and 60 references), glossaries and lectures by leading international scholars. Further, while SJPH particularly focuses on the Nordic regions, we will increasingly publish research from other European and non-European countries, which also should be of interest and relevance to our Nordic audience.

We encourage contributors to take an interdisciplinary approach involving, for example, sociology, psychology, technology, social medicine, epidemiology, public health and preventive medicine, but also an inter-sectoral approach, including of course academia, but also people working in governments, NGOs, think-tanks, the UN and in health care.

The unequal distribution of health and its determinants (both within and outside the health care system) taps into many other areas of public health, which will allow for a large variety of research topics, however SJPH will focus particularly on (in alphabetical order):

• Ageing and health
• Global health/child health
• Mental health
• Migration/ethnicity/refugee health
• Occupational health

However, when the editorial board first came together, we also agreed upon a wider research agenda which is not restricted to these areas. We are interested in publishing work that focuses on a broad range of health outcomes, including mortality, self-reported health, mental health, cardiovascular health, cancer, infectious diseases, non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and disability/functional limitations. We are interested in determinants, including but not limited to housing and living conditions, occupational health, including working conditions, lifestyle, stigma, childhood conditions, social capital and institutional arrangements (such as the welfare state).

We also welcome contributions on both formal and informal health care, and health services research in general. Regarding study groups, we wish to focus on the whole life course, from children and childhood conditions, to adolescents/youth, and ageing. More broadly speaking, we welcome contributions with a global health/child health focus, cross-national research, and theory and methods in public health research. We are also very interested in studies that take advantage of Nordic health registers, which provide unique research opportunities within many of our key areas.

Finally, regarding the stratification of study populations, we welcome contributions focusing on migration/ethnicity/refugees, and we also encourage our authors to submit work split by socioeconomic status and gender. Intersectionality, which explores how these different ‘axes of inequality’ are experienced, not just separately but in combination, is also appreciated.

Read Prof. Terje Andreas Eikemo’s full editorial on the new aims & scope for Scandinavian Journal of Public Health.

Chief Editor
Terje Andreas Eikemo Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Assistant Chief Editor
Trevor Hoftiezer Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Nicole Quattrini Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Nordic Co-Editors
Signe Smith Jervelund University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Mats Målqvist Uppsala University, Sweden
Sigrun Olafsdottir University of Iceland, Iceland
Heine Strand The Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Norway
Editorial Committee
Pernille Tanggaard Andersen University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Amaia Bacigalupe University of the Basque Country, Spain
Insa Backhaus Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Mirza Balaj Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Clare Bambra Newcastle University, UK
Jason Beckfield Harvard University, USA
Maja Bertram University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Piet Bracke Ghent University, Belgium
Stine Byberg Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen, Denmark
Espen Dahl Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway
George Davey-Smith University of Bristol, UK
Katrijn Delaruelle Ghent University, Belgium
Finn Diderichsen University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Ola Ekholm University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Marko Elovainio University of Helsinki, Finland
Elisabeth Fosse University of Bergen, Norway
Jeremy Freese Stanford University, USA
Peter Friberg University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Emmanuela Gakidou University of Washington, USA
Kristian Heggebø Oslo Metropolitan University/ Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Tanja Houweling Erasmus MC, Netherlands/ University College London, UK
Hanno Hoven Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Tim Huijts Maastricht University, Netherlands
Debra Jackson London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK
Alexander Kentikelenis Bocconi University, Italy
Ilmo Keskimäki Tampere University, Finland
Jörgen Lundälv University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Olle Lundberg Stockholm University, Sweden
Johan P. Mackenbach Erasmus MC, Netherlands
Courtney McNamara Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Sir Michael Marmot University College London, UK
Melinda Mills University of Oxford, UK
Christopher Jamil de Montgomery University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Christopher Murray University of Washington, USA
Emma Charlott Andersson Nordbø Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway
Carolin Rapp University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Caroline Relton University of Bristol, UK
Vera Skalicka Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Camilla Stoltenberg The Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Norway
Silvia Stringhini Geneva University Hospitals, Switzerland
Ulla Toft University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Anne Grete Tøge Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway
Executive Board
Camilla Ihlebæk (Chair) Norwegian Public Health Association, Norway
Torben Jørgensen Frederiksberg Hospital, Denmark
Margareta Kristenson Linköping University, Sweden
Jesper Löve University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Kasper Olesen Steno Diabetes Center, Denmark
Sakari Suominen University of Turku, Finland
Kristinn Tómasson Department of Occupational Medicine, Administration of Occupational Safety and Health, Iceland
Deputy Members
Valgerður Gunnarsdóttir Ministry of Health, Iceland
Robert Irestig Capio, Sweden
Ilmo Keskimäki Tampere University, Finland
Johan Lund The Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Norway
Camilla Palmhøj Nielsen Aarhus University, Denmark
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