Call for papers for a special collection in International Journal for Equity in Health
Edited by Rafael Perez-Escamilla and Mireya Vilar-Compte
Providing accessible, high-quality and equitable support for all women who want to breastfeed is a sound social investment. Fair access to programs, policies and infrastructure that promotes, protects and support breastfeeding should be seen as a social justice issue. Hence any social, economic, legal, political or biomedical factor preventing women to implement their right to breastfed should be framed as a health inequity and a social injustice.
There is extensive knowledge on key obstacles preventing breastfeeding, there is also literature suggesting that such obstacles are more salient for women depending on their income level, social position, ethnicity, country of origin, sexual identity, and age, amongst others. Given this knowledge, the aim of this special collection is to bring together research addressing the design, implementation and evaluation of programs and interventions targeted at reducing breastfeeding inequities.
We will consider papers analyzing these issues from different disciplinary lenses (i.e. public health, nutrition, anthropology, economics, social sciences and public policy) and methodological approaches – including any new qualitative or quantitative research or systematic review on the topic. Prior to submission, please send your abstract to info@biomedcentral.com typing Equity in Breastfeeding IJEH in the subject box, so we can inform you whether your paper fits scope of the article collection. The deadline for abstract submission is June 30th, 2020.
If your abstract is a good fit for this collection, we will contact you by July 30th 2020 to invite you to submit a full manuscript. The deadline for submission of full manuscripts is October 15th 2020. Submitted papers should not be under consideration for publication elsewhere. If your abstract does not result in an invitation for submission of a manuscript to the collection, you can still submit the manuscript to this or any other journal of your choice.
Invited manuscripts will undergo the journal’s normal peer review process and be subject to an article-processing charge. For this collection, the Guest Editors will be able to assist with the waiver fee for one exceptional manuscript. Manuscripts should be formatted according to our submission guidelines and submitted via the online submission system. In the submission system please make sure that the correct collection title is chosen at the 'Additional Information' step. Please also indicate clearly in the covering letter that the manuscript is to be considered for this collection.