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The Roads in Health

About the Journal

The Roads in Health is an international, open-access, peer-reviewed journal devoted to public health and closely related interdisciplinary fields. It publishes original research, review papers, policy analyses, theoretical contributions, and methodological studies that help explain, protect, and improve health at individual, community, population, and health-system levels.
The journal approaches health as a broad social, biological, environmental, educational, and policy-related issue, not only as a clinical matter. Its core identity is grounded in public health, preventive and community health, health systems, health policy, health equity, and interdisciplinary health research.

Aims and Scope
The Roads in Health aims to provide a rigorous and internationally oriented forum for studies that address current and emerging health challenges, strengthen health systems, and support more equitable access to health care, health knowledge, and wellbeing. The journal welcomes manuscripts that are scientifically sound, methodologically transparent, ethically responsible, and clearly relevant to public health or closely related human health research.
The journal considers submissions in areas including, but not limited to:
• Public health and epidemiology
• Preventive health, health promotion, and community health
• Global health, sustainable health systems, and health equity
• Health policy, health management, and health economics
• Health education, health communication, and health literacy
• Nutrition, lifestyle, physical activity, and health
• Environmental and occupational health
• Methodology, biostatistics, and quantitative methods in health research
• Medical anthropology and interdisciplinary health studies are clearly connected with health and well-being The journal may also consider translational, methodological, or cross-disciplinary work when its relevance to human health, population health, public health practice, or health systems is clearly demonstrated. Case reports are not considered for publication.

Article Types
The Roads in Health publishes original research articles, review papers, methodological papers, policy analyses, health-system analyses, brief research communications, and Special Issue contributions. Well-designed preliminary or small-scale studies may be considered when they are methodologically appropriate, clearly reported, and able to test hypotheses, guide future research, or inform public health practice.

Reasons to Publish in The Roads in Health
• A clear international profile in public health and related interdisciplinary fields
• A transparent editorial and peer-review process
• Rigorous evaluation by editors and reviewers with relevant expertise
• A user-friendly online submission and peer-review system for manuscript submission and tracking
• Online publication that increases the visibility and accessibility of accepted articles
• Full citability of published articles through DOI assignment
• No submission fee and no page charges at the point of submission

Special Issues
The journal welcomes Special Issues on timely and important topics within the scope of The Roads in Health. Special Issues are edited by Guest Editors appointed by the Editor-in-Chief. Researchers may also propose a Special Issue topic to the Editor-in-Chief. Proposals are evaluated by the Editorial Board, and the proposer is informed of the decision. Information on forthcoming and past Special Issues is provided in the relevant section of the journal homepage.

Readership
The readership of The Roads in Health includes public health researchers, epidemiologists, community health professionals, health educators, health policy makers, healthcare managers, health economists, environmental and occupational health specialists, nutrition and lifestyle researchers, and scholars working at the intersection of health with sociology, psychology, anthropology, education, and environmental sciences.

Abstracting and Indexing Information
Abstracting and indexing information will be updated as the journal is accepted by relevant abstracting and indexing services and databases.

Submission Information
Authors interested in submitting to The Roads in Health should consult the journal’s Author Guidelines, which provide information on manuscript preparation, article structure, ethical requirements, references, tables, figures, and submission procedures. All submissions should be made through the journal’s online submission system.

Submission system: https://theroadsin.com/login

Open Access
The Roads in Health is published as an open-access journal, making articles available to readers without subscription barriers. This model supports the wide dissemination of research findings and helps ensure that carefully reviewed knowledge is accessible to researchers, practitioners, policy makers, and the wider public.
The publisher’s open-access policy defines the license and reuse conditions that apply to published articles. Any third-party images, figures, tables, or other materials included in articles may be subject to separate copyright or permission requirements.

Copyright and Reuse
Authors retain copyright of articles published in The Roads in Health, unless otherwise stated in the journal’s official policy. Third-party materials remain subject to the rights of their original copyright holders. Reuse, distribution, and reproduction of published material are governed by the journal’s official open-access license and copyright policy. Authors are responsible for obtaining permission for any third-party material included in their manuscripts.

Article Processing Charges and Waivers
There is no submission fee or page charge at the time of submission. Information about Article Processing Charges (APCs), if applicable, and available waiver or discount options is provided through the publisher’s official Open Access and fee policies.
Kaplan SANEN Publishing may consider full or partial APC waivers for corresponding authors from low-income economies, resource-limited settings, or countries affected by war, natural disasters, economic collapse, or humanitarian emergencies, in accordance with the publisher’s official waiver policy. Authors who wish to request a waiver or discount are advised to do so at the time of submission. Each request is evaluated according to the publisher’s stated criteria.

Editorial Structure and Peer Review
Submitted manuscripts undergo technical and editorial screening before publication. This stage may include checks for format, completeness, reference style, text similarity, ethical statements, and basic compliance with the journal’s requirements. Manuscripts that do not meet the necessary requirements may be returned to the corresponding author for correction before editorial evaluation continues. After the initial screening, suitable manuscripts are evaluated by the Editor-in-Chief and assigned to an appropriate Associate Editor or Section Editor. The Associate Editor oversees the editorial handling of the manuscript and may appoint a Review Editor to coordinate the peer-review process. The Review Editor invites at least two reviewers with relevant expertise. The peer-review process includes an independent review phase, during which reviewers evaluate the manuscript according to objective scholarly criteria. Where appropriate, the process may proceed to an interactive review phase, in which authors respond to reviewer comments through the journal’s online system. The Review Editor and Associate Editor may guide this process to ensure that the revision remains constructive, rigorous, and fair. After peer review and revision, the Review Editor evaluates the reviewers’ reports and the authors’ responses. The Associate Editor considers the full review record and makes an editorial recommendation or decision in accordance with the journal’s official workflow. The Editor-in-Chief retains oversight of the journal’s editorial standards and may intervene, when necessary, particularly in cases involving ethical concerns, scientific misconduct, or serious questions about the suitability of a manuscript.

Reviewer Confidentiality and Transparency
During the review process, reviewer independence and freedom of scholarly judgment are protected. Reviewer identities remain confidential during evaluation unless the journal’s official policy states otherwise. The decision to accept an article should be unanimous among all reviewers and the handling Associate Editor. To ensure transparency and accountability in peer review, the names of the Associate Editor, Review Editor, and Reviewers are displayed in published articles. This provides an impartial and rigorous review and encourages authors to contribute.

Conflicts of Interest and Editorial Independence
Editors, Review Editors, and reviewers involved in manuscript evaluation do not receive any financial incentive linked to the acceptance of manuscripts. Editorial decisions must be based on scientific quality, methodological soundness, ethical compliance, relevance to the journal’s scope, and the contribution of the work to health research and practice.
Any recognition or acknowledgment offered to editors or reviewers must remain separate from the editorial decision and must not influence acceptance or rejection. This separation is essential for protecting editorial independence and maintaining trust in the review process.

Post-Publication Quality Control
The Roads publishing platform supports scholarly discussion and post-publication engagement. If serious concerns arise after publication, including ethical violations, integrity issues, or scientific misconduct, the publisher may initiate an evaluation in accordance with its correction and retraction procedures. When concerns are verified, appropriate action is taken in accordance with the journal’s policies and recognized standards of scholarly publishing.

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