Salute e Società overview

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.
Any number of Salute e Società is edited by an expert (or more), who is responsible for the scientific level of the single issue.

Requirements for submission of manuscripts 
The journal invites original contributions covering specific approaches, concepts and/or  experiences of direct relevance to the topic of monographic volumes (see Table 1).
Submissions without clear empirical or theoretical relevance to the topic  cannot be considered. 
Papers should be a maximum length of 5.000 words  (including notes and bibliography) and should include an abstract, keywords, author’s affiliation and his e-mail.
Papers  should be submitted directly to the Editors by the deadline showed in Table 1.
Articles submitted to the journal should be  original and unpublished material and should not currently be under consideration for publication elsewhere.
Once received, the essays will be subjected to a double-blind peer-review before publication. This refereeing procedure normally takes 3 months, so no decision can be made on the publication of a paper until this process has been completed. 
We recommend that authors consult the guidelines for authors before making their submissions.

Table 1 – Monographic volumes: title,  editors,  topics and deadlines for submission 

Further Information
For details of Authors guidelines, please "click" here
For guidelines for Referees, please "click" here
For details of the Ethic Statement, please "click" here

Contacts
Prof. Antonio Maturo (Responsible of the Technical-Scientific Secretary ), antonio.maturo2@unibo.it
Dott.ssa Linda Lombi (Coordinator  of the Technical-Scientific Secretary), linda.lombi2@unibo.it