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Salute e Società
(Health and Society) is an Italian journal of Sociology of health
published in Italian and English. Sociology of health is concerned with
the social dimensions of health: organization; disability; addiction;
ageing; voluntary associations and care; evaluation of health care;
social inequalities and health; health communication; medicalization and
other related topics. The aim of the Journal is to advance social
sciences knowledge about health in its various forms.
Salute e Società
was founded in 2002 and is published, by FrancoAngeli
Franco Angeli Editore (Milano),
any four months (April;
August; December). The Scientific
Editor is Costantino Cipolla, Professor of
Sociology of Health at Università degli Studi di Bologna.
The minimum size of any
volume is 208 pages. Periodically, Salute e Società has Special
Issues or Supplements.
Double-blind peer review, in which both
authors and referees are anonymous, is ensured, except for Editorial,
Introduction, Round Table and Notes.
The journal is indexed on:
Ebsco
Discovery Service,
Google
Scholar,
ProQuest
Summon and is also available on Casalini Digital Library
website.
The organization
charter is composed by:
Scientific Advisory Board:
made up by promiment professors and scholars, not only Italians, in
Sociology of health or related disciplines (Medicine included)
Scientific
Editor: Costantino Cipolla, head of Scientific
Directory, responsible for the planning of Salute e Società and the
scientific level of the series
Scientific
Committee:
planning of Salute e Società and the scientific level of the
series, among its members: the representative of the Medical
Sociology Section of the Italian Sociological Association and the
President of the European Society of Sociology of Health and
Medicine
Technical-Scientific Secretary:
coordinates and take care of the editing of any single number,
includind the correspondance with the referees.
Editorial
Board: composed by young scientists and professors, they often
help in translations, editing, organization of seminars based on
Salute e Società articles or on the presentation of a new
issues, they also collaborate in writing the Notes section
Local
Editorial Boards: Italian correspondants of Salute e Società, they often
promote and organize local presentation of the new issues of
Salute e Società, they also collaborate in writing the Notes
section
International
correspondances: they propose foreign articles, make referee on
english articles. They also can be editor of an issue.
Any number of Salute e Società is edited by an expert (or more), who
is responsible for the scientific level of the single issue.
Together with the Technical-Scientific Secretary, the editor
takes care of the referee’ opinions (two for every single article).
Internally Salute e Società is organized in different areas:
Editorial, Introduction, Essays, Round table,
Research,
Debates, Reviews,
Notes.
Any article is provided by an English abstract.
The planning of the issues of Salute e Società arrives until 2013.
Single articles
may be purchased on line.
Salute e Società
is scientifically supported by Università degli Studi di Bologna.
Editorial norms
and call for papers can be found on Salute e Società’s site (www.saluteesocieta.com)
There are no paid personnels working for, and/or paid by, Salute
e Società. Nor are people who write for it.
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