Journal of Health Inequalities

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Please note that since October 2024 there is an obligatory charge (= 120 Euro/500 PLN) for each manuscript submitted and accepted for publication in Journal of Health Inequalities. The Journal of Health Inequalities seeks research and review articles in the fields of public health and medical care. We welcome articles in the areas of public health research, teaching, practice and policy; we are also interested in interventions promoting individual and community health, health education, and prevention of chronic and acute disease. Of particular interest to us are papers addressing health inequalities and differences between regions, countries and different social, economic and demographic groups. Papers must be submitted to the Editorial Office on-line via: When reporting experiments on human subjects, authors should indicate whether the procedures followed were in accordance with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2000 (concerning the ethical principles for the medical community and forbidding releasing the name of the patient, initials or the hospital evidence number) and with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national). The authors presenting case studies are obligated not to disclose patients' personal data. Regarding photographs, in case of any doubt that the picture inadequately protects the patient's anonymity his consent is required for publication. Journal of Health Inequalities is published in accordance with ICMJE policies and recommendations. The ICMJE requires - and recommends that all medical journal editors require - registration of clinical trials in a public trials registry at or before the time of first patient enrollment as a condition of consideration for article publication. The ICMJE defines a clinical trial as any research project that prospectively assigns people or a group of people to an intervention, with or without concurrent comparison or control groups, to study t

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