Mental health series. Call for papers
2024-04-19
The series will focus on mental health access to care and health workforce issues.
Education for Health disseminates work consistent with the mission of The Network: Towards Unity for Health (TUFH), a global consortium of health professions schools and individuals committed to improving education of the health workforce and focused on responsiveness to the needs of communities they serve.
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Current Issue
Vol. 37 No. 2 (2024): Mar-Jun 2024 - Volume 37 - Issue 2
Thailand, Iran, Sudan, and Brazil are represented in this issue with reports on rural recruitment, educational environment, a new teaching tool, and the impact of war. Repeated studies, including one in our next issue, demonstrate the predominance of authors from high resource countries in academic publications. We continue to encourage authors from the rest of the world to submit their work so our readers get a more balanced view of the state of health workforce education.
A commentary from Guest Co-Editors, Sailaja Musunuri and Tine Hansen-Turton from Woods Services, provides global context for our new series on mental health. Advances in neurophysiology provide better diagnostic and treatment options but they may be thwarted by stigma and access issues that deter people in need from getting help. Voices from all corners of the world need to be heard on these issues.
Efficient manuscript processing is the key to a vibrant journal. The average number of days from submission to acceptance for Education for Health is 49, a dramatic improvement from a year ago, and in keeping with industry standards. Our reviewer team is doing valiant work providing timely feedback to authors, and they could use your help to offset the workload. We would particularly like to see more published authors from this journal volunteer to become peer reviewers. If you are interested, contact me directly at drwburdick@gmail.com.
Finally, Payal Bansal will remain a Co-Editor but she is taking a well deserved sabbatical after many years of service to attend to other responsibilities. We look forward to her return.
Bill Burdick
Co-Editor, Education for Health
Published: 2024-07-30
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Partners:
Education for Health and its parent organization, TUFH, partner with The Woods System of Care and FAIMER to generate and curate submissions on health priority topics related to advancement of quality in health workforce education and community mental health and integrated health for complex care populations.
The Woods System of Care is a population health management organization that through its network of providers provides life cycle care to meet the lifelong needs of children and adults with intellectual disabilities, acquired brain injuries and/or mental health challenges who may also have complex medical and genetic conditions. The Woods System of Care is a Collaborating Center of Excellence with The Network: Toward Unity for Health and manages The Mollie Woods Hare Global Center for Excellence with expertise in autism, intellectual and developmental health and mental health populations. The Woods System of Care is driven by the understanding that the root causes of health inequity are deep and complex and are attributed to differences in access to healthcare, income, education, race, segregation, and place. Barriers in access to quality, affordable care, along with the double burden of racism and poverty for people who have a disability result in a higher incidence of health disparities and significantly poorer health outcomes. A welcoming environment, highly trained and competent healthcare providers and an integrated care model addresses these disparities and improves health.
FAIMER is a division of Intealth, an integrated organization that also includes the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG). Through strategic integration of its nonprofit divisions, Intealth brings together expertise and resources to advance quality in health care education worldwide to improve health care for all. As divisions of Intealth, FAIMER and ECFMG share a common vision and pursue complementary missions. FAIMER promotes excellence in international health professions education through programmatic and research activities. FAIMER has trained more than 2,000 Fellows worldwide in partnership with its Regional Institutes; has contributed to the national understanding of the international medical graduate workforce in the United States; and has partnered with many organizations to advance the quality of health professions education. FAIMER Project Reports: Innovations in Health Professions Education are structured reports completed by FAIMER Fellows at the end of the 2-year International FAIMER Institute or FAIMER Regional Institute Fellowship program, based on education innovation projects.