Socialmedicinsk Tidskrift (smt) – Journal of Social Medicine – is a multidisciplinary forum for research and policy and welcomes submissions from all fields of Social medicine, Public Health, Health Promotion and Health and Social Services. The scope of the journal includes Social Insurance Systems, Social and Health Policy, Social Services, Public Health, Drug Abuse, Co-operation between the Medical and Social sector providers, Ethics and Health Economy. Smt is its own publisher and printing is performed by Alfaprint AB, Stockholm.
Smt is published 6 times per year, mainly in Swedish with English abstracts to original contributions. Occasionally, papers in other Nordic languages and English are published. External reviewers assess all original papers. In addition to full research papers smt publishes book reviews, presentations of recently published thesis’s and debate articles. The readers are in general a mix of the public, private and public sector organisations and institutions, students, researchers and professionals in areas of Public health and Social medicine in Sweden and other Nordic countries. The structure of smt includes six issues yearly with a certain theme, and in addition to submitted, peer-reviewed contributions.
Since 1924 the main part of every issue of the Journal of Social Medicine contains a theme section, where research and practical experiences within a specific theme, area or field is presented and discussed by different authors. Examples of themes that have been published during the 21st century are Education in Public health, Stress medicine, Vulnerability, Empowerment, Violence in relationships, Elderly care and Distribution of resources within the Health Care. Every theme has its own theme editor/s, which is one or two persons that have extensive knowledge within the field and about which authors who could contribute with relevant manuscripts of current interest.
During the 21st century the Journal of Social medicine has gone through a slow renewal of the journals format and layout. As a part of this renewal smt got its own web site. In 2008 the board of smt decided to expand availability to reach new readers and authors. Until then the journal had only been available in print, but since potential new readers tended to read and download information of the Internet the board decided to make smt available online. A decision that lead to the creation of a new web site where readers could read and download articles and authors could submit their manuscript through the system embedded in the web site. Right now you are visiting this website.
If you are interested in submitting manuscripts, advertising, subscribing to the printed issue, the distribution of the journal or back issues please contact the Editorial office (redaktionen@socialmedicinsktidskrift.se)
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