FOCUS AND SCOPE

Journal Interdisciplinary Health (JIH) is an international, peer-reviewed scholarly journal dedicated to advancing interdisciplinary knowledge, scientific innovation, and evidence-based practice across the health sciences. The journal provides an academic platform for researchers, healthcare professionals, educators, policymakers, and practitioners to disseminate original research that addresses contemporary health challenges and contributes to improving healthcare quality, population health, and health system performance. The journal promotes interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approaches that integrate clinical, biomedical, behavioral, social, technological, and policy perspectives. Particular emphasis is placed on research that generates scientifically rigorous evidence, advances theoretical and methodological understanding, supports equitable and sustainable healthcare, and informs clinical practice, public health interventions, and health policy development.

Aims

Journal Interdisciplinary Health aims to:

  1. Advance high-quality, original, and methodologically rigorous research across health disciplines.
  2. Promote interdisciplinary collaboration and knowledge integration to address complex healthcare and public health challenges.
  3. Strengthen evidence-based clinical practice, community health services, and health system improvement.
  4. Support innovation in healthcare delivery, digital health, disease prevention, health promotion, and patient-centred care.
  5. Facilitate the translation of scientific evidence into clinical practice, healthcare management, and public health policy.
  6. Encourage research addressing health equity, social determinants of health, universal health coverage, and sustainable health systems.

Scope of the Journal

The journal welcomes scholarly contributions in the following areas:

1. Public Health and Epidemiology

Population health, disease prevention, health promotion, epidemiological research, environmental and occupational health, communicable and non-communicable diseases, health disparities, and community-based interventions.

2. Clinical and Biomedical Sciences

Clinical research, disease diagnosis and management, patient safety, clinical outcomes, translational medicine, biomedical innovations, and interdisciplinary approaches to patient care.

3. Nursing and Midwifery Sciences

Nursing practice, advanced nursing care, maternal and neonatal health, reproductive health, patient-centred care, nursing education, community nursing, and evidence-based nursing and midwifery interventions.

4. Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

Clinical pharmacy, pharmacotherapy, medication safety, pharmaceutical care, pharmacovigilance, rational medicine use, and interdisciplinary medication management.

5. Nutrition and Dietetics

Clinical nutrition, maternal and child nutrition, nutritional epidemiology, food security, malnutrition, stunting prevention, dietary interventions, and community nutrition programmes.

6. Health Policy, Management, and Health Systems

Health governance, healthcare leadership, health financing, health services management, primary healthcare strengthening, universal health coverage, healthcare quality, health economics, and health system resilience.

7. Health Education and Behavioral Sciences

Health literacy, health communication, behavioral interventions, patient education, health professional education, community empowerment, and psychosocial determinants of health.

8. Digital Health and Healthcare Innovation

Digital health technologies, mobile health, telemedicine, health informatics, artificial intelligence in healthcare, electronic health records, clinical decision support, and technology-enabled healthcare delivery.

9. Allied Health and Rehabilitation Sciences

Physiotherapy, occupational therapy, rehabilitation sciences, medical laboratory sciences, diagnostic technologies, multidisciplinary rehabilitation, and integrated allied health services.

10. Global Health and Sustainable Development

Global health challenges, health equity, social determinants of health, cross-sector collaboration, disaster and emergency health, climate-related health risks, and health-related Sustainable Development Goals.

Types of Manuscripts

Journal Interdisciplinary Health considers the following categories of scholarly manuscripts:

  • Original Research Articles: Quantitative, qualitative, mixed-methods, experimental, observational, and implementation research presenting original findings.
  • Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses: Evidence syntheses conducted using transparent, reproducible, and internationally recognized methodological approaches.
  • Scoping Reviews: Systematic mapping of existing evidence, research concepts, knowledge gaps, and emerging health research priorities.
  • Narrative and Integrative Reviews: Critical and analytically rigorous syntheses that provide substantial conceptual, theoretical, or practical contributions.
  • Case Reports and Case Studies: Clinically or scientifically significant cases offering transferable insights into interdisciplinary healthcare practice.
  • Methodological and Implementation Studies: Research evaluating innovative methods, healthcare interventions, implementation strategies, and health system improvements.

Editorial Priorities and Scientific Standards

The journal prioritizes manuscripts demonstrating scientific originality, methodological transparency, ethical compliance, and clear relevance to interdisciplinary health sciences.

Submissions should articulate a well-defined research problem, identify a meaningful knowledge gap, employ appropriate research methods, and present conclusions supported by the reported evidence.

Research involving human participants must comply with applicable ethical requirements, including institutional ethics approval and informed consent where appropriate. Authors are encouraged to follow internationally recognized reporting guidelines, including CONSORT, STROBE, PRISMA, COREQ, and other relevant standards according to study design.

The journal particularly welcomes studies with broader scientific, clinical, public health, or policy implications beyond a single institutional or local setting.

Out-of-Scope Submissions

Manuscripts may be considered outside the journal's scope when they:

  • Lack a clear connection to health sciences, healthcare practice, or population health.
  • Present purely descriptive findings without sufficient scientific interpretation or meaningful contribution to existing knowledge.
  • Do not demonstrate adequate methodological rigor, research transparency, or ethical compliance.
  • Address highly specialized non-health topics without relevant interdisciplinary implications.
  • Provide unsupported conclusions or lack a clearly articulated research contribution.

Commitment to Scholarly Excellence

Journal Interdisciplinary Health (JIH) is committed to fostering rigorous peer review, responsible research conduct, editorial independence, and transparent scholarly communication.

Through the dissemination of scientifically robust and interdisciplinary research, the journal seeks to contribute to the advancement of health knowledge, the improvement of healthcare systems, and the development of equitable, innovative, and sustainable health services worldwide.