About the Journal

The Journal of Comprehensive Health (JCH) is an open-access peer-reviewed journal committed to publishing high-quality articles in the field of Health Care. The Indian Association of Preventive and Social Medicine, West Bengal (IAPSM-WB) is a state branch/chapter of Society i.e. Indian Association of Preventive and Social Medicine (IAPSM). It is [Registered Under Societies Registration Act, XXI of 1860 in Delhi, Registration No.14240], founded in 1974, a “not for profit” professional organization of specialists in Epidemiology, Community Medicine, Health Management, Health Promotion, and Family Medicine, dedicated to the promotion of public health by bringing its members’ expertise to the development of public health policies. It advocates for education, research, and programs of Community Medicine and providing a forum for the regular exchange of views & information. The journal is owned by the Indian Association of Preventive and Social Medicine-West Bengal (IAPSM-WB) Chapter and published by the Scientific Scholar.

Aims & Scope

Journal of Comprehensive Health is the official publication of Indian Association of Preventive and Social Medicine, West Bengal Chapter. The Journal aims to provide an easily accessible, peer-reviewed, international evidence-base to encourage communication among those engaged in the research, teaching, and application of epidemiology of both communicable and non-communicable disease, including research into health and medical care. Initially two issues will be published annually in electronic format in January and July. The journal allows free access (Open Access) to its contents. The journal’s full text will be available online at www.iapsm-wbc.co.in.

Scope of the Journal:

The Journal of Comprehensive Health will publish articles of authors from India and abroad with special emphasis on original research findings that are relevant to developing country perspective including India. The journal considers publication of articles as original article, brief research article, special article, review articles, case series report, CME article, view point and letter to editor. The journal covers population based studies, impact assessment, monitoring and evaluation, systematic review, meta-analysis, clinico-social study in the discipline of public health, especially relevant to national priorities, including ethical and social issues. Articles aligned with national health issues and policy implications are preferred. Authors should therefore understand manuscripts without relevant content and conclusions will be declined without assessment.

Audience

Our audience includes researchers from the field of Health Care.

Review Process

JCH has a highly rigorous peer-review process that makes sure that manuscripts are scientifically accurate, ethically sound, relevant, novel and important. Authors disclose all conflicts, affiliations and financial associations such that the published content is not biased.

Editorial Team

The editorial board comprises a panel of experts from various disciplines of medical and allied sciences to provide their expertise and guidance in maintaining the clarity of content and focus of the purpose for the journal.

About the Editor

Chief-Editor
Professor (Dr.) Nirmal Kumar Mandal
Principal, MJN Medical College & Hospital,
Cooch Behar, West Bengal, India
Email: editor@journalofcomprehensivehealth.co.in ;
mandalnirmalkumar@gmail.com

Facts About the Journal

This is a peer reviewed journal published Semiannual, follows a double-blind review process. Its open access model ensures worldwide visibility and boosts authors’ prominence in medical research.

Abstracting and Indexing Information

The journal is registered with the following abstracting partners:
Google Scholar, CrossRef, ReadCube, Portico

Journal Ethics

The Journal of Comprehensive Health is committed to meeting and upholding the standards of ethical behavior at all stages of the publication process. We follow closely the industry associations, such as the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) and World Association of Medical Editors (WAME), that set standards and provide guidelines for best practices in order to meet these requirements. For a summary of our specific policies regarding duplicate publication, conflicts of interest, patient consent, etc., please visit our Ethical Guidelines section

Plagiarism Policy

The journal uses plagiarism check software (iThenticate) on the Editor’s and Reviewer’s panel in the manuscript management system which is used to check and control Plagiarism for each article. Any manuscript, that is found to have plagiarism is rejected.

Archival Policy

We use PORTICO for our third-party repository for all articles published with us. All our articles are assigned a DOI number. We are members of https://crossref.org

Open Access Publication and Creative Commons Licensing

Journal of Comprehensive Health is an open-access journal, and manuscripts published are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-Share Alike 4.0 License (CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0), which allows others to remix, transform, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.

Ahead of Print Policy

Articles published online under the Ahead of Print model are considered published and can be cited and quoted using the DOI as the reference source. Journal of Comprehensive Health has a policy that changes will not be made after the publication of an article without following accepted procedures for making corrections to the scientific record.

Subscription Information

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Publisher

Scientific Scholar LLC (scientificscholar.com) is a well-respected medical publisher that fully supports open access publishing models, Subscription and Society based journal models through its own in-house peer-review management system – EditorialAssist (journalmanagement.org). The head office of Scientific Scholar is in Rochester, NY, USA and has a subsidiary arm in India.

The mission of the Scientific Scholar is “Share, Learn and Improve”.