Call for papers on health and socioeconomic development

[Diana Howansky]

(Please note that the editors of this volume particularly welcome 
articles about the health effects due to the Chernobyl disaster.)

PUBLICATION OPPORTUNITY
	
CALL FOR PAPERS: EDITED VOLUME ON 	
HEALTH CAPITAL AND SUSTAINABLE SOCIOECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Global forces are increasingly shaping national healthcare policies. The 
international community is paying more attention to mounting evidence 
showing the strong relationship and influence that population health has 
on sustaining human capital and socioeconomic development.
In fact, with the upsurge of once-contained communicable diseases and 
recent outbreaks of newly discovered contagious diseases such as Severe 
Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS-CoV), bird flu (H5N1 strain of Avian 
influenza), and prion diseases (transmissible spongiform 
encephalopathies (TSEs) such as variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob syndrome 
(vCJD), there is increased international attention to healthcare program 
management and accountability focused on disease detection, 
surveillance, prevention, containment, and treatment. There is also a 
growing realization of the relevance that the improvement of health 
capital has for increasing the value of a nation’s well-being, that is, 
on the quality of a nation’s socioeconomic development.

Because of these health risk factors influencing quality of life, it is 
timely, necessary, and important that this book be published. This 
peer-reviewed book will be published through the School of Public 
Affairs, Penn State University, United States, and is expected to 
contain articles from interdisciplinary sources in the international 
health and sustainable development fields to advance this new discourse 
about the need for improving healthcare management policy to improve a 
nation’s health stock and economic potential.

Therefore, international development scholars and interdisciplinary 
healthcare practitioners are invited to submit original manuscripts 
addressing, but not limited to, any of the following sub-themes:

Social Development: manuscripts in this section might address health 
capital as an integral part, and influential factor, to sustainable 
socioeconomic reform and development efforts; explore the relevant 
factors to developing and improving healthcare systems; investigate 
whether the mental and physical rights of the patient are critical to 
development; and, discuss the role of healthcare education for 
sustainable development.

Economic Development: manuscripts in this section might address 
financing issues of overburdened healthcare systems; explore other 
funding sources to provide for healthcare services; focus on the pros 
and cons of privatization of healthcare services; and, elaborate on the 
role healthcare information technology has in addressing system 
management and healthcare-related socioeconomic issues.

Legal and Political Development: manuscripts in this section might 
address policies being enacted to address national healthcare needs; 
evaluate the extent to which enacted policies meet the ethical, 
professional, and economic concerns of healthcare practitioners and 
contribute to the stability of the system; and explore the underlying 
political thought and the present functioning of healthcare systems 
within the international/global community.

Paper submission schedule:
1.	Submission of manuscript proposal (200-250 words): May 22, 2006
2.	Submission of complete manuscript (at least 20 double-spaced pages): 
July 24, 2006.
Only original manuscripts will be accepted for publication.
3.	Submission of revised final drafts: December 18, 2006

Author guidelines are located at the International Journal of Economic 
Development home page: http://www.spaef.com/IJED_PUB/ (Link: manuscript 
guidelines SPAEF e
Please send manuscript proposals by e-mail attachment to editor:
Dr. Patricia A. Cholewka, EdD, MPA, MA, RN, BC, CPHQ ; E-mail: 
pacholewka at verizon.net

-- 
Diana Howansky
Staff Associate
Ukrainian Studies Program
Columbia University
Room 1208, MC3345
420 W. 118th Street
New York, NY  10027
(212) 854-4697
ukrainianstudies at columbia.edu
http://www.harrimaninstitute.org/courses/ukrainian_studies_program.html

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