Call for papers: “Race, ethnicity, racism, and health"

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Call for papers: “Race, ethnicity, racism, and health"

Racism is a social determinant that structures the access to fundamental rights for diverse populations and communities, shaping their lives and social relations through historical and contemporary racialization processes. The intersection of race and ethnicity with other forms of oppression such as gender, class, territory, and national origin are important issues that merit more in-depth inquiry in the field of public health worldwide. The multiple manifestations of racism – interpersonal, internalized, structural or systemic – shape the mechanisms that lead to adverse health impacts for racialized individuals and communities, such as Afro-descendants, Indigenous peoples, and members of other ethnic groups. This is a global reality, both in the “Global North” and “South”, and therefore it is crucial to examine the specificities of historical, cultural, and social processes in each context that have conditioned the configuration of racial and ethnic identities as well as the structure of relations of power and domination, in addition to the persistent inequalities caused by racism and its manifestations. In this regard, studies that discuss the relations between race, ethnicity, racism and health-disease-care-prevention processes are of fundamental importance for the creation and expansion of public policies capable of eliminating these inequalities and attaining health equity for all peoples and populations affected by racism and its manifestations.

The journal Salud Colectiva is seeking contributions that analyze the relations between race, ethnicity, racism, and health-disease-care-prevention processes. Researchers from diverse fields — epidemiology, public health, sociology, anthropology, geography, critical race studies, public policy, health sciences, among others — are invited to present papers from a qualitative or quantitative methodological approach, as well as interdisciplinary and multi-method studies. Contributions may explore one of the following topics, among others:

Racial and ethnic inequalities in health-disease-care-prevention processes
Racial and ethnic discrimination in health care
Racial residential segregation and health inequities
Intersectional perspectives on health problems, taking into account multiple forms of oppression
Public policies or specific interventions that address health inequities
Migration, xenophobia, and racialization processes in relation to health care
Production and availability of data for the analysis of racial inequities in health

Guest editors: Andrêa Ferreira, The Ubuntu Center on Racism, Global Movements & Population Health Equity, Drexel University Dornsife School of Public Health, Philadelphia, USA. Iyaleta – Pesquisa, Ciências e Humanidades, Salvador, Brazil; Centro de Integração de Dados e Conhecimentos para Saúde (Cidacs-Fiocruz), Bahia, Brazil. Vivian Carla Honorato dos Santos de Carvalho, Instituto Multidisciplinar de Saúde, Campus Anisio Teixeira, Universidade Federal de Bahia, Salvador, Brazil. Joseph Palumbo, Centro de Estudios Urbanos y Regionales, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CEUR-CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina; Instituto de Salud Colectiva, Universidad Nacional de Lanús (ISCo-UNLa), Remedios de Escalada, Argentina.

Submission of original articles

Works must be original and unpublished and written in Spanish, English or Portuguese. As of 2019, the journal accepts works previously deposited in the preprint platforms SocArXiv, bioRxiv, arXiv, PsyArXiv or SciELO Preprints. All manuscripts will be subject to a preliminary review to determine whether the article meets the goals, editorial policies and standards of the journal. If the article is deemed eligible in this pre-evaluation, the authors will be notified and the peer review process will commence. Regardless of the submission language, works accepted will be published in Spanish or bilingually in both English and Spanish [see Submission and publication languages]. The journal covers the costs of editing, publishing and distribution, and authors must cover the costs of translation.

All works must be submitted via the journal website using the option. For more details, see “How to submit your paper." The basic formal requirements are as follows:

File 1: Authorship page

Authorship information: first and last names for each author; last academic degree earned; current position and institution; country; e-mail address, ORCiD code.
Acknowledgements: names of the institutions and/or persons to be thanked for their contributions (excluding financial contributions).
Funding: If a grant or funds have been provided to finance the research, the cover page must include the name of the funding agency and the research approval number or code.
Conflict of interests: The mention of a conflict of interest does not imply the rejection of the article. Any real or potential conflict of interest, any obligations on the part of the author/s with regards to sources of funding, or any other type of relationship or rivalry that may be deemed to create a conflict of interest must be explained.
Author contribution: In accordance with the CRediT – Contributor Roles Taxonomy, the cover page must describe the contribution made by each author [ver Authorship].

File 2: Article anonymised

Reference to the call for papers "Race, ethnicity, racism, and health"
Title of article: in both Spanish and English.
Article abstract: no more than 12 lines written in a single paragraph without structuring titles, in Spanish and English.
Keywords: 3-5 Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) or Health Science Descriptors (DeCS), using the option “DeCS search".
Suggested maximum length: 7,000 words (not including abstract, references and tables or figures).
Submission languages: texts must be submitted in Spanish. Authors who are not Spanish-speaking may submit works in Portuguese or English. If they are accepted, they will be published in Spanish or bilingually in both Spanish and English. The journal will cover editing, publishing, and distribution costs, and authors must cover the cost of translation [see Submission and publication languages].
Endnotes and footnotes: Due to the new electronic editing process, neither endnotes nor footnotes may be included. All necessary clarifications must be provided throughout the text.
Quotation: If the article contains quotations of texts published in other languages, the quotation must be translated into the submission language and the original quotation must be also included.
Figures and tables: No more than seven tables and/or figures will be accepted. They must be submitted within the same file as the text, at the end of the text, and must include the following:

Consecutive numbering (tables and figures must be numbered independently, in series according to their designation).
A descriptive title specifying the geographic and temporal dimensions of the data presented.
The source of the data used.

Data deposit: Research teams must ensure the availability of research data and, in the event that the article is accepted, must deposit the dataset in SciELO Data [see Data Deposit Policy].
Research Ethics: If the research has been carried out using human subjects (including ethnographies using in-depth interviews or any other type of research in which people participate), the text must contain (in the Methodology section) an explanation of the informed consent obtained from participants and the approval of research protocol by the relevant Ethics Committee.
References: Correlative numbering system (Vancouver) based on the style of the National Library of Medicine. Maximum: 100 references.

File 3: Conflict of interest and ethical aspects, originality and publication rights

The Declarations of Ethical Aspects, Conflicts of Interest, Originality and Publication Rights must be downloaded, filled out and included as Supplementary Files in Step 2 "Upload Submission" of the submission process. [Download Declaration CIEA-OPR].

Additional information

Article processing charge (APC): Salud Colectiva does not charge for editorial processing of articles. All editing, publishing and distribution costs are funded by the Instituto de Salud Colectiva of the Universidad Nacional de Lanús.

Open Access policy: Salud Colectiva ratifies the Open Access model in which scientific publications are made freely available in full text online, with no embargo periods and with no publication costs falling on the authors. Authors are offered full access to the final published versions so as to include them in institutional repositories. All of the material included in Salud Colectiva is published under a Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).

Submission period

Given that the thematic issue has guest editors from different countries, a specific timeframe is proposed for article submission. Thus, articles may be submitted for evaluation from April 1, 2024 to April 30, 2024.