Dear All,



A few months ago I sent you a call for papers for a special issue of
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public
Health<http://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph> http://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph/
(ISSN 1660-4601 - indexed in MEDLINE/PubMed) on the theme of Public Health
Informatics. We have now extended the deadline to 31 December 2009 to allow
those of you who are interested to prepare and submit their manuscripts for
consideration/publication in this special issue.



We are using the broadest definition of Public Health Informatics, which also
covers applications, systems, services and solutions with noticeable impacts on
communities (including patient communities, older populations, etc.) and/or on
health and social care systems and services.



Prospective authors are invited to submit manuscripts on related topics,
including, but not limited to, Internet-based public education and outreach;
telehealthcare and domotic services for populations with special needs;
real-time outbreak and disease surveillance; Internet-based engagement and
empowerment of citizens and communities, including Social Web applications;
e-epidemiology; privacy-preserving solutions for public health studies that
involve person-identifiable data (e.g., home addresses); etc.

* Open Access - free for readers, with low publishing fees paid by authors or
their institutions
* Rapid publication: accepted papers are immediately published online (we
started to publish papers quickly since September 2008). The printed edition
will only be continued for the Proceedings of the yearly International
Symposiums on Recent Advances in Environmental Health Research starting 2009.

Submission



Deadline: 31 December 2009

The Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health<http://mdpi.org/journal/ijerph> (ISSN
1660-4601) was launched in 2004 and is an Open
Access<http://www.mdpi.com/about/openaccess> journal, with the main Editorial
Office located in Basel, Switzerland. It has been accepted for coverage in
Science Citation Index Expanded<http://www.mdpi.com/about/journals/sci>,
available as the Web of Science and in Current Contents/Agriculture, Biology,
and Environmental Sciences. Coverage will begin with the 2009 issues. This
journal is also abstracted and indexed very rapidly by Chemical Abstracts,
MedLine<http://www.mdpi.com/about/journals/pubmed>/PubMed<http://www.mdpi.com/ab\
out/journals/pubmed> and EMBASE. The IJERPH<http://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph>
maintains a rapid editorial procedure and a rigorous peer-review system. Well
written papers have been peer-reviewed and published in less than 4 weeks from
manuscript submission. All papers published in
IJERPH<http://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph> have DOI numbers.

All papers should be submitted to
ijerph@...<javascript:location.href='mailto:'+String.fromCharCode(105,106,1\
01,114,112,104,64,109,100,112,105,46,111,114,103)+'?'> with copy to the guest
editor mnkamelboulos@...<mailto:mnkamelboulos@...> . To be
published continuously until the deadline and papers will be listed together at
this special issue website.

Please visit the Instructions for
Authors<http://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph/instructions> page before submitting
a paper. Open Access publication fees are 300 CHF per paper. English correction
fees (250 CHF) will be added in certain cases (550 CHF per paper for those
papers that require extensive additional formatting and/or English corrections).



As always, if you have any queries I can help with, please do not hesitate to
contact me or Ms. Gardenia You [ijerph@...] of IJERPH's Editorial Office.



With kind regards,

--Maged N. Kamel Boulos

Guest Editor for the Special Issue on Informatics

University of Plymouth