The goal of the special issue is to highlight cutting-edge research and practice regarding best practices, investigate cross-cultural or cross-system differences, and discuss challenges and opportunities of developing, implementing and evaluating evidence-based community-level prevention programs and systems. This also includes questions regarding networking and capacity building that is how to support prevention workforce communities, involve stakeholders and community groups in prevention efforts, and ultimately how to create stronger links between research and practice.
Full manuscript submission deadline: 30 July 2025
Preferred publication type for this Special Issue:
– Original Research: Submissions describing quantitative, qualitative or mixed-methods research on community-based prevention and/or health promotion as well as research on research methods in community-based prevention (e.g., development of instruments, participatory approaches).
– Policy: Analyses of community-based preventive policies and their impacts in social and health outcomes.
– Practitioner Narrative: Reports on best practices, implementation and challenges of community-based prevention. Practitioner narratives are usually written by or with program developers and implementers and require a critical reflection on evidence-informed practice.
– Review of the Literature: These usually comprise systematic reviews or meta-analyses that focus on important and emerging topics in the field and present a benefit for a larger audience.
– Other types of reviews (e.g., scoping review, umbrella review) are also welcome, but a short informal email to the editors is recommended before submission to check eligibility for this special issue.
Additional publication types eligible for inclusion:
– Brief Reports: Brief reports usually focus on pilot studies that present promising results, preliminary findings of original research or data that extends previously published research, theory or practice.
– Debate: Debate papers are in-depth opinion pieces that aim for a critical discussion of one aspect of prevention science. They should not contain unpublished or original data.
For more information on types of publications, please, visit the Journal’s submission guidelines:
https://link.springer.com/journal/10935/submission-guidelines
Manuscript should be submitted via the Journal’s platform:
https://www.editorialmanager.com/jopp/default.aspx
For more information, please check the document below: