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Call for Occupational Health and Safety Articles

The interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal Family and Community Health is producing an entire issue on promoting workplace health and safety. Articles are due by Oct. 1, 2004, to Issue Editor Marianne Brown, UCLA LOSH-Program, at <mpbrown@ucla.edu>.

We are soliciting articles on:
Adolescents & Workplace Health & Safety
  • Extent of the Problem (1 article)

  • Interventions to reduce workplace injuries/illnesses in adolescents (2 articles)


  • Immigrant Workers & Workplace Health & Safety
  • Extent of the Problem (1 article)

  • Interventions to reduce workplace injuries/illnesses in immigrant workers (2 articles)


  • The impact of work-related injuries and illnesses on the family
  • Extent of the Problem (1 article)

  • Interventions to reduce impact (2 articles)


  • Impact of workplace health and safety risks on the nearby community
  • Extent of the Problem (1 article)

  • Interventions to reduce impact (2 articles)


  • The purpose of Family and Community Health (FCH) is to focus healthcare practitioners, regardless of area of practice on a common goal: to provide a forum to discuss a holistic approach to family and community healthcare and primary healthcare, including health promotion and disease prevention. Each issue of FCH focuses on a specific topic that can be used by faculty, practitioners, and students in a range of healthcare disciplines.

    FCH is indexed in the Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature (CINAHL); Current Contents/Social and Behavioral Sciences; Research Alert; Social SciSearch; Family Studies Database; Health Promotion and Education Database; Cancer Prevention and Control Database; Nursing Abstracts; Psychological Abstracts; PsychINFO; PsysLIT; Journals@ovid; Sociological Abstracts; Social Planning/Policy & Development Abstracts; MEDLINE; MEDLARS; and Index Medicus.