Health and social care

Open access resources for health, social care and social work

Source		Description
	Advances in Social Work	Advances in Social Work is committed to enhancing the linkage among social work practice, research, and education.
	American Journal of Men's Health (AJMH)	American Journal of Men's Health (AJMH) is an open access, peer-reviewed journal which focuses on cutting-edge information regarding men's health and illness.
	Behavior and Social Issues	Behavior and Social Issues is a journal covering the science of behavior analysis. It is a hybrid journal, which means that some but not all of the articles are open access.
	Case Reports in Women's Health	Case Reports in Women's Health publishes open access case reports covering all aspects of women's health.
	Environmental Health Insights	EHI is an open access, peer reviewed international journal focusing on how environmental factors affect the health of individuals and societies
	Global & Regional Health Technology Assessment	Global & Regional Health Technology Assessment is a peer-reviewed, open access journal which which focuses on promoting health technology assessment and economic evaluation, enabling choices among alternative therapeutic paths or procedures with different clinical economic outcomes.
	Global Advances in Health and Medicine (GAHM)	Global Advances in Health and Medicine (GAHM) provides global communications services for the rapidly developing worldwide movement in health and medicine that integrates knowledge of therapeutic approaches and lifestyle practices to promote health and healing.
	Global Health Action	Global Health Action is an international peer-reviewed Open Access with a vision to be a leading journal in the global health field, narrowing health information gaps and contributing to the implementation of policies and actions that lead to improved global health.
	Global Pediatric Health (GPH)	Global Pediatric Health (GPH) is an open access, peer-reviewed journal which focuses on health issues of children that are common to all regions of the world.
	Health Expectations	Health Expectations promotes critical thinking and informed debate about all aspects of patient and public involvement and engagement (PPIE) in health and social care, health policy and health services research
	Health Informatics Journal	Health Informatics Journal is an international peer-reviewed journal. All papers submitted to Health Informatics Journal are subject to peer review by members of a carefully appointed editorial board.
	Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine	Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine: an Open Access Journal (HPBM) publishes theoretical and empirical contributions on all aspects of research and practice into psychosocial, behavioral and biomedical aspects of health.
	Health Psychology Open	Health Psychology Open is a peer-reviewed, open access journal providing rapid publication. Health Psychology is dedicated to publishing cutting-edge research from around the world
	Health Science Reports	Health Science Reports is an international, open access journal that publishes research and commentaries from across all medical and health sciences disciplines . The journal welcomes clinical studies, as well as reports on methods and research design, health services and economics, public health, and medical education and practice.
	Health Services Insights	Health Services Insights is an open access, peer reviewed international journal that focuses on improvement of healthcare services through the analyses of costs, quality, and access in health care.
	INQUIRY (INQ)	INQUIRY (INQ) is an open access, peer-reviewed journal whose mission is to improve health at both the public health and individual healthcare organization levels by enabling scientists, educators, healthcare practitioners, administrators, managers, and policymakers to translate their research and ideas into actionable outcomes.
	International Journal of Adolescence and Youth	International Journal of Adolescence and Youth aims to identify, examine and compare particular issues, problems and policies related to adolescents and youth throughout the world. Subject areas covered include psychological growth and development, health and medical care, delinquency, social policy, employment and unemployment, education and training, spiritual and physical development, leisure, family relationships, sex education, homelessness.
	International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy	This journal disseminates research and analysis regarding major issues of child care and education policy relating to young children and their families to a broad international readership, including policymakers, researchers, and practitioners.
	International Journal of Clinical Health Psychology	The International Journal of Clinical Health Psychology is a quarterly publication produced by the Asociación Española de Psicología Conductual since 2001. Our Journal publishes experimental, theoretical and applied articles that contribute to the advancement in any of the areas of clinical and health psychology. Manuscripts are published in English.
	International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being	International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being (QHW) is an Open Access peer reviewed scientific journal that acknowledges the international and interdisciplinary nature of health-related issues.
	Intersectionalities: A Global Journal of Social Work Analysis, Research, Polity, and Practice	The purpose of this journal is to share knowledge and facilitate collaborative discourse amongst social work theorists, practitioners, educators, activists, researchers, and the community members they serve within local, regional and global contexts.
	Journal of Primary Care & Community Health (JPC)	Journal of Primary Care & Community Health (JPC) is a peer-reviewed open access journal which focusses on the study, practice, impact and outcomes of primary care services and community health programs.
	Methods in Psychology	Methods in Psychology considers articles on new, updated, adapted or innovative research methodologies and methods, analytical methods, and research practices across the breadth of psychological research.
	Palliative Care & Social Practice	Palliative Care & Social Practice is an international open access palliative care journal that publishes articles from symptom science, clinical practice and health services research, as well as cutting-edge research from the realm of social practice – from public health theory and practice, social medicine and social work, to social sciences related to dying and its care, as well as policy, criticism and cultural studies.
	Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care	Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care is an international online open access journal publishing articles with relevance to general practice and primary health care.
	Social Sciences & Humanities Open	Social Sciences & Humanities Open is a home for open scholarship from across the social science and humanities disciplines.
	Society, Health & Vulnerability	Society, Health & Vulnerability aims to contribute to our understanding of vulnerability and marginalization in society in light of health-related factors. The journal provides a multi-disciplinary publication outlet for research on vulnerability in the context of health and its relationship to working life conditions, family, social status, socio-economic status, social situation and other factors.
	SSM - Population Health	The new online only, open access, peer reviewed journal in all areas relating Social Science research to population health.
	Substance Abuse: Research and Treatment	Substance Abuse: Research and Treatment is an international, peer reviewed, open access journal focusing on human substance abuse research and treatment, including medical treatment and screening, mental health services, research, and evaluation of substance abuse programs.
	The Lancet Digital Health	The Lancet Digital Health is an Open Access journal in the Lancet family of journals.
	The Lancet Global Health	This journal is dedicated to publishing high-quality original research, commentary, correspondence, and blogs on the following subjects as they pertain to low- and middle-income countries: reproductive, maternal, neonatal, and child health; adolescent health; infectious diseases, including neglected tropical diseases; non-communicable diseases; mental health; the global health workforce; health systems; health policy; and public health.
	The Lancet Public Health	The Lancet Public Health is a monthly, open access, online-only journal working in partnership with our existing family of Lancet titles. Our focus is to attract, review, and publish quickly high-quality original research that contributes to advancing public health practice and policy making worldwide.
	Women’s Health	Women’s Health is an open access, peer-reviewed international journal that focuses on all aspects of women's healthcare. The aim of the journal is to increase knowledge regarding all issues that specifically affect women.