Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine

We are pleased to announce that Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine, previously published as a subscription journal by Springer, has become a fully open access journal. Any manuscripts previously submitted to the subscription journal will be published by BioMed Central as open access articles and should conform to our submission guidelines. The journal will publish its first open access content in March 2017.

Featured Editorial

Our featured Editorial is a personal perspective on Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine from the Editor-in-Chief, Hidekuni Iandera. With the journal recently receiving its first Impact Factor, and its exciting move to open access, the journal has undergone many changes. Prof. Inadera reflects on these important developments and what this will mean for Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine's future.

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Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine was previously published as a Springer subscription journal. Past content, from 1997 to 2016, is available on Springer Link.

Aims and scope

The official journal of the Japanese Society for Hygiene, Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine (EHPM) brings a comprehensive approach to prevention and environmental health related to medical, biological, molecular biological, genetic, physical, psychosocial, chemical, and other environmental factors. EHPM features definitive studies on human health sciences and provides comprehensive and unique information to a worldwide readership.

Editor's profile

Hidekuni Inadera, Editor-in-Chief, serves as a Professor of the Department of Public Health at the University of Toyama, where he specializes in environmental health. Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine, the official journal of the Japanese Society for Hygiene, brings a comprehensive approach to prevention of diseases and environmental health related to medical, biological, molecular biological, genetic, physical, psychosocial, chemical, and other environmental factors. Doors are always open for the submission on environmental health and human health sciences, whether conducted on an experimental or epidemiological basis.

About the Society

The Japanese Society for Hygiene (JSH) aims to promote human health through integration of diverse factors associated with human life and the social and natural environment. We are very proud of the fact that our society has contributed to eliminating health problems, not just in Japan but around the world. Examples of these are beriberi disease and four major environmental diseases: Minamata disease (methylmercury poisoning); Itai-itai disease (cadmium poisoning); Yokkaichi asthma; and Toroku arsenic disease). Our members have made significant achievements in preventive medicine, and they have uncovered new findings in environmental health, thereby stimulating the development of young researchers in social medicine.

International authors publishing in EHPM can request coverage of the journal’s article-processing charge (APC) by the JSH, so they will not have to pay the APC themselves if the article is accepted. This must be requested during the article submission process by entering a code that can be obtained from the Society office (jsh@nacos.com).