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Call for papers on “Women's and Children's Health”

Dear Colleague,

In September 2010, UN Secretary General Mr Ban Ki-moon launched the Global Strategy: with just 5 years left to fulfill the Millennium Development Goals, it sets out the urgent action priorities for MDG 4 (Reduce by two thirds the mortality rate of children under five) and MDG 5 (Reduce by three quarters the maternal mortality ratio and ensure universal access to reproductive health).

In this context, FACTS Reports has decided to support the Global Strategy by devoting a special issue to a collection of articles on actions relating to “women's and children's health”.

Throughout the world, people are grappling at ground level to resolve health issues facing women and children, whether directly in the field, or by focusing on potential health determinants (social, environmental, demographic, economic, educational, etc).

The aim of FACTS Reports is to collect and disseminate, to these front-line actors, the contents of relevant, effective and reproducible experiments, explaining the methods used and the results achieved and discussing how to improve, develop and reproduce these ground-level trials.

As an independent international scientific publication, FACTS Reports reaches a wide readership through its articles published in the journal and made available online. FACTS Reports helps to gain recognition and exposure for the projects studied by inviting opinions from other international development stakeholders.

We would greatly appreciate receiving an article describing your experiences within the context of your field activities.

The FACTS Reports team can provide assistance with drafting and translating articles.

Thanking you in advance for your cooperation. Please feel free to contact me if you require any further information.

Kind regards,

FACTS Reports

Advice to Authors

Articles submitted to FACTS Reports should include the following elements:

  • What was the objective of the project/program?

  • How was the project/program implemented?

  • What obstacles were encountered, and how were they overcome?

  • What are the benefits of the project/program?

  • How might the project/program be improved and reproduced?

Articles are limited to 5000 words, 50 references, and 6 tables and/or figures. Shorter articles are welcome.

The abstract, at least 250 words, should outline the starting point, the methods, the results and the conclusions.

The article must include a title, an abstract, an introduction, the methods used, the results obtained, a discussion, acknowledgements, and references.

The discussion must contain at least one paragraph on the concrete implications of the program.

The title page must contain the title, the full names, degrees and institutional affiliations of all of the authors, the e-mail address of the corresponding author, and the wordcount.

Manuscripts must be clear, concise, and understandable to a general audience.

The structure of the article must make a clear distinction between facts and their interpretation.

Finally, only projects that include the specific characteristics of the region in which they were implemented will be published.

Manuscripts, in MS Word format, must be submitted by June 30, by e-mail, to the following address: facts-reports.ve@institut.veolia.org

If you would like to submit at a later date, please contact:

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