Title: CHPPD Article Submission Guidelines
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Section/SPIG: Community Health Planning and Policy Development
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The following is guidance for Community Health Planning and Policy Development (CHPPD) members who wish to contribute articles for this Newsletter.
The CHPPD section is an avid believer in communication in many forms. To achieve this, we (and all sections) have three newsletters per year with these deadlines:
Winter: January 16, 2004 (DONE);
Spring: May 16, 2004 (DONE); and
Fall: August 27, 2004.
The articles received by the section newsletter editors are entered into an electronic form and submitted to APHA for editing and approval. For the Year 2004, Tom Piper (macquest@mchsi.com) is the editor, and Priti Irani (pri01@health.state.ny.us) is assistant editor.
Here are some guidelines for CHPPD section article submission:
1. The content can be related to a community health planning, policy development or related activity or resource. The assumption is that, if the content is of interest to you, other members probably will appreciate it, too.
2. Please keep the articles short, concise, and interesting (no boilerplate), and a paragraph or more, but less than a full page. The file format for articles should be plain text, Microsoft Word or RTF, and for visuals should be .TIF or .JPG.
3. Graphics, photos and charts would make articles more interesting. For example, if your article describes a web page resource, you may want to submit a graphic of the Home Page. If your article describes an activity, an illustration or picture will generally make it more interesting.
4. If you have any questions about articles to submit for the CHPPD newsletter, please contact Tom or Priti.
We will also disseminate the information submitted in the newsletter via the CHPPD website and “listserv”. To join this interactive messaging service, send an e-mail addressed to comm-hlth-l@liststar.apha.org (note: use the lower-case letter “L”, not the number “one”). In the subject line of the e-mail, type “subscribe comm-hlth-l (see previous note), and leave the body of the e-mail blank. See http://www.apha.org/private/group.htm for more information on all of APHA's listservs.
CHPPD continues to improve our current communication vehicles, and look for new ways to expand information exchange. If you have helpful suggestions, feel free to provide them at any time . . . your participation will only make us more successful