About the Journal

 

The Interdisciplinary Journal of Health Promotion / RIPS is the official publication of the Graduate Program in Health Promotion and the Department of Health Sciences at Santa Cruz do Sul University, Santa Cruz do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The journal is quarterly, open-access, peer-reviewed, and publishes original scientific articles, Case Studies, Systematic Review, and Meta-Analysis and Letters to the Editor. The editorial board is made up of professors and researchers from various educational institutions and national and international research centers with a high ethical and scientific sense, critical capacity and human resources training. The journal disseminates the experiences and scientific studies related to subjects that contribute to knowledge in the area of health promotion, prevention and recovery, linked to studies and research in health or other fields of research related to them and with an interdisciplinary approach. Accepts articles with quantitative and qualitative approaches, descriptive, analytical research, clinical, epidemiological and environmental studies, which have as their final objective the dissemination of scientific knowledge in Health Promotion and Public / Public Health. Numbers or supplements may be prepared as consensus, event annals and special series. The objective is to support the dissemination of actions carried out within the scope of health promotion aimed at contributing to the understanding and control of health problems affecting society at different levels of health care. We encourage you to submit your research in this wide-ranging journal to publicize advances in health research!