Racial/Ethnic Differences in Framingham Risk Score in an NHANES Cohort
Ashley Farokhrouz, Rodney G. Bowden, Kathleen A. Richardson, Tanvir Ahmed, Jaimala Kishore
Cardiovascular risk assessment & health disparities
Peer-reviewed · Open access · ISSN 2474-3585 · Published by Open Access Pub
Journal of Preventive Medicine and Care
Research that reduces risk before disease takes hold — clinical prevention, screening and early detection, behavioural and community health, and the systems and policies that shift risk across whole populations. Work that focuses on treatment without a prevention or public-health dimension may be out of scope.
- ISSN
- 2474-3585Online
- DOI prefix
- 10.14302Crossref registered
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0Authors retain copyright
- Peer review
- Single-blindDouble-blind on request
- Article charge
- USD 1,800Only after acceptance
Scope
What this journal publishes
The Journal of Preventive Medicine and Care (JPMC) publishes peer-reviewed research in preventive medicine and public health. A manuscript belongs here if it reports a measurable prevention outcome, or a finding with a clear implication for preventive practice, preventive care delivery or prevention policy. Work is assessed against the four bands of the prevention continuum below.
Primary
Before disease onset
Risk reduction, immunisation, health promotion and behavioural intervention in populations that are not yet affected.
Secondary
Screening & early detection
Screening programmes and uptake, diagnostic pathways, and timely intervention that slows or halts progression.
Tertiary
Preventing complications
Care models and preventive management that reduce complications, recurrence and avoidable deterioration.
Population
Access & equity
Population-level strategies, health-system and policy measures that shift the distribution of risk and close gaps in access.
Clinical prevention & risk reduction
Cardiometabolic risk reduction, chronic disease prevention, preventive care in primary care settings, and preventive management across the lifespan.
Screening & early detection
Cancer and chronic disease screening, uptake and participation, population outreach, and prevention-focused clinical workflows.
Behavioural, community & population health
Behaviour change and lifestyle medicine, nutrition, physical activity, tobacco control, community-based prevention, and health education.
Prevention systems, policy & equity
Implementation science and quality improvement, occupational and environmental prevention, health economics of prevention, social determinants and health disparities.
- Vaccination & infectious disease prevention
- Maternal, child & adolescent preventive care
- Occupational & environmental health risks
- Behavioural health & mental wellbeing
- Health equity & social determinants
- Implementation science & care coordination
- Health economics of prevention programmes
- Digital health & risk stratification
Scope boundary
Where the boundary falls
The journal states its limit in one sentence, in the Instructions for Authors: “If your work focuses on treatment without a prevention or public health dimension, it may be out of scope.” The four manuscript categories below are the ones JPMC lists, with the journal’s own limits — a design that does not appear here has no category to be submitted under.
Original research
3,000-6,000 words. Structured abstract of 300 words; up to 10 figures and tables.
Systematic review
4,000-8,000 words. Structured abstract of 300 words; up to 12 figures and tables.
Programme evaluation
2,500-5,000 words. Structured abstract of 250 words; up to 8 figures and tables.
Brief report
1,500-2,500 words. Unstructured abstract of 200 words; up to 4 figures and tables.
Unsure whether a study fits? The decisive question is whether the conclusion changes what someone would do to prevent disease, detect it earlier, or reduce risk in a population. The Aims & Scope page asks authors who are uncertain to contact the editorial office before submitting.
Scope priorities, settings and populations are set out on the Aims & Scope page; category limits, structure and reporting standards are in the Instructions for Authors.
Published research
The scope, demonstrated
Peer-reviewed articles from the JPMC archive, chosen to show the range of prevention evidence the journal publishes rather than simply the most recent deposits. Each links to the full text; every article is open access under CC BY 4.0 and carries a registered Crossref DOI.
Uptake of Breast Screening Among Female Staff at A Tertiary Health Institution in South-West Nigeria
Adesoji E. Adetona, Kayode O. Osungbade, Oluwaseun O. Akinyemi, Taiwo A. Obembe
Cancer screening uptake & early detection
Antimicrobial Resistance: A Situational Analysis in the Deido Health District, Douala, Cameroon
Charles Njumkeng, Elvis T. Amin, Denis Zofou, Jane-Francis K. T. Akoachere, Patrick A. Njukeng
Antimicrobial resistance & community health protection
Prevalence and Risk Factors of Metabolic Syndrome Among Teaching Staff of Engineering Colleges in Central India
Sanjay Agrawal, Sanjeev M. Chaudhary, Sanjay S. Kubde, Manjusha Dhoble, Moin Shaikh
Cardiometabolic risk factors in an occupational cohort
The Knowledge Levels of Pediatricians about the Vaccination against Pertussis
Ahmet Doğan, Hüseyin Dağ, Habip Gedik, Kemal Pişmişoğlu
Immunisation practice & vaccine-preventable disease
Managing Overweight and Obesity in Ghana from a Cultural Lens: The Complementary Role of Behaviour Modification
John Elvis Hagan Jr., Christiana Nsiah-Asamoah, Thomas Hormenu, Dietmar Pollmann, Thomas Schack
Behavioural intervention & obesity prevention
Most recent issue
Volume 3, Issue 3
2 articles · published 2023–2024
JPMC publishes continuously: an article is released as soon as it completes peer review and production, and is assigned to an issue at that point. Issue Volume 3, Issue 3 is the most recently assigned.
The record
What the archive actually contains
Every figure below is counted from the journal’s own published corpus each time this page loads, so it cannot drift from what the archive serves. JPMC publishes only numbers a reader can reproduce from the record itself — open the archive and count.
41
Peer-reviewed articles published
11
Issues across 3 volumes
2015
Publishing since
11
Editorial board members
- 29 Research articles
- 7 Reviews
- 3 Case reports
- 1 Editorial
- 1 Brief report
Editorial oversight
Who assesses the work
Manuscripts are handled by an international editorial board of 11 members working in preventive medicine, public health, nursing and prevention-focused clinical practice. Four are shown here; the affiliation given for each was confirmed against the ORCID public registry or the institution’s own records, and the full board is listed with research interests and profiles.
Monica L. Wang
Associate Professor of Community Health Sciences
Boston University School of Public Health, United States
Chronic disease prevention, the social and structural determinants of health, and health communication.
ORCID 0000-0002-7019-5072
Sonali Patel
Professor of Pediatrics
UT Southwestern Medical Center, United States
Epidemiology of paediatric blood pressure and cholesterol disorders and their role in adult cardiovascular disease; preventive cardiology.
Mary Oschwald
Associate Research Professor, Regional Research Institute
Portland State University School of Social Work, United States
Interpersonal violence prevention among adults with disabilities; community-engaged research and programme evaluation.
Heejung Kim
Professor, College of Nursing
Yonsei University, Republic of Korea
Behaviour-based interventions and cognitive training for older adults with mild cognitive impairment in rural communities.
ORCID 0000-0003-3719-0111
Peer review
How a manuscript is assessed
Review is Single-blind (double-blind on request). Every submission passes through the same four stages, and the decision rests on the science.
Editorial screening
Every submission is screened by an editor for scope fit, ethical compliance and completeness before it goes any further.
External peer review
In-scope manuscripts are assessed by subject-matter reviewers in preventive medicine, public health and care delivery. Review is Single-blind (double-blind on request).
Editorial synthesis
An editor weighs the reviews against methodological rigour, scope alignment and prevention relevance, and issues a clear decision category.
Revision & decision
Authors receive the reviews with explicit revision guidance. Decisions may be appealed with an evidence-based rationale and are reviewed by senior editors.
Editorial decisions are based on scientific merit and are made independently of article processing charges, membership, paid language editing, or any other payment or service. No fee, service or role confers an advantage in the review or acceptance of a manuscript.
The complete policy set is on the Editorial Policies page.
Research integrity
Ethics, transparency and accountability
The requirements below apply to every submission and are published in full on the journal’s policy pages. JPMC follows COPE guidance on publication ethics, misconduct and authorship disputes.
Ethics approval & consent
Studies involving human participants require documented institutional review board approval and informed consent.
Competing interests
Authors and reviewers disclose financial and non-financial competing interests; funding sources and sponsor roles are reported.
Similarity screening
All submissions are screened for plagiarism before review.
Data availability
Data availability statements are required where applicable, and clinical trials should be registered with a protocol identifier.
Corrections & retractions
Errors identified after publication are addressed by correction or retraction. Suspected misconduct is handled under COPE guidance; authorship disputes are managed according to international standards.
Editorial independence
Editorial decisions rest on scientific merit and are independent of funding, fees, membership or any paid service.
Open access & charges
What publication costs, and what it buys
One charge, one figure, stated once. Nothing is payable to submit, and nothing is payable if a manuscript is declined.
- Article processing charge
- USD 1,800, applied to all article types. Payable only after acceptance. There is no submission fee.
- When it applies
- After a manuscript has been accepted following peer review. The charge is never a condition of review and is not a factor in the editorial decision.
- Waivers
- Partial waivers are considered case by case, with regard to funding availability. A waiver request does not affect how a manuscript is reviewed.
- Licence & copyright
- Every article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0). Authors retain copyright and grant JPMC the right to publish, and may reuse their work in future publications, institutional repositories and teaching materials. Copyright & licence terms
- What the charge covers
- Editorial handling and peer-review coordination, copyediting and typesetting, XML, PDF and HTML production, Crossref DOI registration and metadata deposit, ethics and similarity screening, hosting, and post-publication metadata maintenance and corrections.
Discovery & identifiers
How the work is found and cited
Every service listed below can be checked, and the checkable ones are linked so a reader can confirm them in a single click rather than take the journal’s word for it. Nothing appears here that JPMC cannot evidence; the journal’s full coverage position is answered in the questions further down this page.
- Crossref DOI
- Every article carries a registered DOI under the 10.14302 prefix, with deposited metadata and reference links. Verify on Crossref
- ISSN 2474-3585
- Registered online ISSN, used for cataloguing and for the journal-level Crossref record. Verify on the ISSN Portal
- ORCID
- Author ORCID iDs are recorded and displayed on the article page wherever an author has supplied one.
- OAI-PMH
- Article metadata is exposed for harvesting by discovery services and aggregators.
- Google Scholar
- Full text is openly crawlable; inclusion remains subject to Google Scholar’s own guidelines.
- Open licence
- CC BY 4.0 on every article, so any repository, index or reader may copy and redistribute the work with attribution. Read the licence
Submission
Before you submit
Four checks that decide most outcomes, and the manuscript categories JPMC considers.
Confirm the prevention dimension
State, in the abstract, what the finding changes about preventing disease, detecting it earlier, or reducing risk. This is the first thing an editor screens for.
Use the reporting guideline for your design
The journal asks authors to use the established guideline relevant to the study design: CONSORT for trials and interventions; STROBE for observational studies; PRISMA for reviews and evidence syntheses; TIDieR for intervention reporting; SQUIRE for quality improvement studies.
Prepare the integrity documentation
Ethics approval and consent statements, competing-interest and funding declarations, a data availability statement, and a trial registration identifier where one applies.
Format to the author instructions and submit
Follow the manuscript structure, reference style and file requirements in the Instructions for Authors, then submit through the journal’s submission page.
Original research
3,000-6,000 words. Structured abstract of 300 words; up to 10 figures and tables.
Systematic review
4,000-8,000 words. Structured abstract of 300 words; up to 12 figures and tables.
Programme evaluation
2,500-5,000 words. Structured abstract of 250 words; up to 8 figures and tables.
Brief report
1,500-2,500 words. Unstructured abstract of 200 words; up to 4 figures and tables.
Questions
Answers authors ask for first
What does the Journal of Preventive Medicine and Care publish?
JPMC publishes peer-reviewed research in preventive medicine and public health: clinical prevention and risk reduction, screening and early detection, behavioural, community and population health, and prevention systems, policy and equity. Manuscripts should report a measurable prevention outcome or a clear implication for preventive practice or policy.
What is out of scope for JPMC?
The journal states one limit: work that focuses on treatment without a prevention or public health dimension may be out of scope. Manuscripts are submitted under one of four categories — original research, systematic review, programme evaluation or brief report — so a study design that does not fit one of those has no category to be submitted under. Authors who are uncertain are asked to contact the editorial office before submitting.
How is JPMC peer reviewed?
Peer review is Single-blind (double-blind on request). Every submission is first screened by an editor for scope, ethics and completeness, then assessed by subject-matter reviewers, and an editor synthesises the reviews into a decision with explicit revision guidance. Editorial decisions are based on scientific merit and are independent of any fee, membership or paid service.
What is the article processing charge, and when is it payable?
The article processing charge is USD 1,800 and applies to all article types. There is no submission fee. The charge falls due only after a manuscript has been accepted, and it is never a condition of review or a factor in the editorial decision. Partial waivers are considered case by case.
Is JPMC open access, and who holds copyright?
JPMC is fully open access. Every article is free to read and download from the moment of publication and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0), with authors retaining copyright.
Where is JPMC indexed?
Every JPMC article is registered with Crossref under the 10.14302 DOI prefix and the journal holds ISSN 2474-3585. Article metadata is exposed for harvesting via OAI-PMH and full text is openly crawlable. JPMC is not currently included in DOAJ, Scopus, Web of Science or MEDLINE, and makes no claim to be.
Who publishes JPMC?
JPMC is published by Open Access Pub. The journal has published 41 peer-reviewed articles across 11 issues and 3 volumes since 2015, and is guided by an international editorial board of 11 members.
Does JPMC accept manuscripts already posted as preprints?
Yes. Submissions previously posted to a preprint server such as medRxiv or bioRxiv are welcome. Authors should disclose the preprint and its identifier at submission; prior posting does not affect consideration.
Submit prevention research to JPMC
If your study shows how risk can be reduced, disease detected earlier, or prevention delivered better — in a clinic, a workplace, a community or a whole population — the editors would like to see it.
Submit a manuscriptJournal of Preventive Medicine and Care · ISSN 2474-3585 · Published by Open Access Pub · Editorial policies · Contact the editorial office
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