Social Theory & Health www.palgrave-journals.com/sth/ Editors: Graham Scambler and Paul Higgs, University College London, UK; Ruth Graham, Newcastle University, UK; Richard Levinson, Emory University, USA; and Guido Giarelli, University “Magna Graecia”, Italy 2016: VOLUME 14 • 4 ISSUES PER VOLUME Print ISSN: 1477-8211 Online ISSN: 1477-822X Impact Factor: 0.953† 25/38 in Social Sciences, Biomedical 2014 5-Year Impact Factor: 1.048† 29/38 in Social Sciences, Biomedical Social Theory & Health is affiliated to the European Society for Health and Medical Sociology (ESHMS).
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An accessible journal with a broad, eclectic approach that provides a unique, single source of theoretical work about health and health policy. Social Theory & Health encourages and disseminates innovative contributions to the social theory of health, reviewing global, national and local structures through the lens of health.
• Complete online archive available back to 2003.
Social Theory & Health provides an international scholarly forum for theoretical reflection and debate on contemporary health issues, many of which bear directly on the planning and delivery of services. The journal aims to consolidate, refine and extend theoretically informed work on the role of health in modern societies. Interest in issues of theory and health now informs many academic and practiceoriented disciplines and crosses discipline boundaries.
• Advance online publication - definitive, citable version of papers (complete with DOI) available online ahead of print. • Social Theory & Health is indexed and/or abstracted in: Australian Research Council ERA Ranked Journals List; CSA Linguistics and Language Behaviour Abstracts; CSA Social Services Abstracts; CSA Sociological Abstracts; Infotrieve; International Bibliography of Periodical Literature on the Humanities and Social Sciences (IBZ); International Bibliography of Book Reviews of Scholarly Literature on the Humanities and Social Sciences (IBR); International Bibliography of Social Sciences (IBSS); International Political Science Abstracts; OCLC; PsycINFO; SCOPUS; Social Sciences Citation Index®; Studies on Women and Gender Abstracts; SwetsWise; Worldwide Political Science Abstracts. • Social Theory & Health is included in Palgrave Open which offers authors of accepted papers the option to publish their articles with immediate open access upon publication. See page 55. † 2014 Journal Citation Reports® (Thomson Reuters, 2015)
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