Health SA Gesondheid
AOSIS (Pty) Ltd · South Africa
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Aims & Scope
Health SA Gesondheid - Journal of Interdisciplinary Health Sciences is an open access, peer-reviewed interdisciplinary and interprofessional scholarly journal that aims to promote communication, collaboration and teamwork between professions and disciplines within the health sciences to address problems that cross and affect disciplinary boundaries. The journal publishes original articles on issues related to public health, including implications for practical applications and service delivery that are of concern and relevance to Africa and other developing countries. It facilitates the gathering and critical testing of insights and viewpoints on knowledge from different disciplines involved in health service delivery. The journal offers the breadth of outlook required to promote health science education, research and professional practice. The journal has a strong regional focus (South Africa) with abstracts published in English. It offers a nurturing environment for young and novice researchers to showcase their work whilst upholding the standards of health science education, research and professional practice. The journal explores issues and posits solutions to current challenges existing in health care from an interdisciplinary perspective within Africa and other developing countries, including but not limited to: improvement of health safety and service delivery management and measurement of health services evaluation and assessment of health care needs prevention of ill health and health-affecting behaviours promotion of healthy lifestyles health security, economics, policy and regulations.
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Publication & Citation Trend
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Frequently asked questions about Health SA Gesondheid
Is Health SA Gesondheid a predatory journal?
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What is the impact factor of Health SA Gesondheid?
Health SA Gesondheid is indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, so Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor for it (since the 2023 Journal Citation Reports, every Core Collection journal — including Arts & Humanities and Emerging Sources titles — receives one). PubScope links to Clarivate's official source rather than reprinting the number, which can be out of date. Its open 2-year mean citedness is 1.04.
Is Health SA Gesondheid indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?
Health SA Gesondheid is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, DOAJ.
What is the aims and scope of Health SA Gesondheid?
Health SA Gesondheid - Journal of Interdisciplinary Health Sciences is an open access, peer-reviewed interdisciplinary and interprofessional scholarly journal that aims to promote communication, collaboration and teamwork between professions and disciplines within the health sciences to address problems that cross and affect disciplinary boundaries. The journal publishes original articles on issues related to public health, including implications for practical applications and service delivery that are of concern and relevance to Africa and other developing countries. It facilitates the gather
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