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Information for Authors

The Regional Health Forum seeks to inform and to act as a platform for debate by health personnel including policy-makers, health administrators, health educators and health communicators.

Contributions on current events, issues, theories and activities in all aspects of health development are welcome. Contributions should be original and contain something of interest to those engaged in health policy and practice, some lesson to be learned, some idea, something that worked, something that didn't work, in fact anything that needs to be communicated and discussed on a broader scale. Articles, essays, notes, news and views across the spectrum of health development will be published.

Papers for submission should be forwarded to the Editor, Regional Health Forum, World Health Organization, Regional Office for South-East Asia, World Health House, Indraprastha Estate, Mahatma Gandhi Road, New Delhi 110002, India (e.mail address: editor@whosea.org).

Contributions should:

     be in English;

     be written in an anecdotal, informal, lively and readable style (so that sophisticated technologies, for example, may be easily understood);

     be in MS Word and sent with a diskette and a printout in double space, and

     not normally exceed 3000 words with an abstract (approx. 250 words) and a maximum of 30 references.

Letters to the editor should normally be between 500-1000 words with a maximum of six references.

Responsibility of the Authors

Authors are responsible for:

     ensuring that their contributions contain accurate data and references (and are requested to check the accuracy of both before submission);

     obtaining permission to use copyrighted material (if used). The letter granting such permission should be attached to the manuscript when submitted;

     obtaining permission from appropriate governmental authorities if the contribution pertains to a government programme/projet and contains material/statistics/data derived from governent sources;

     ensuring that all abbreviations (if used) are explained;

     giving their full names, the name and address of their institutions, and an exact description of their posts;

     declaring sources of funding for the work undertaken, and

     disclosing at the time of submission, information on financial conflict of interest that may influence the manuscript. They may also choose to declare other interests that could influence the results of the study or the conclusions of the manuscript. Such information will be held in confidence while the paper is under review, and if the article is accepted for publication the editors will usually discuss with the authors the manner in which such information is to be communicated to the reader.

Tables and Illustrations

     The use of tables and illustrations should be restricted to those that clarify points in the text.

     All illustrations and tables should be numbered consecutively and should be lightly marked on the back with the figure number, and the author's name indicated.

     Graphs and figures should be clearly drawn and all data identified.

     Photographs should be on glossy paper, preferably in black and white.

     Each table should be submitted on a separate sheet of paper.

References

     References should be numbered consecutively as they occur in the text.

     Journal titles should be written out in full (i.e. not abbreviated).

     A reference to a contribution in a book should include the chapter title and page range.

Reprints

Reprints of contributions are not produced but five printed copies of the issue will be supplied to the respective authors. An electronic version of the article in PDF format may also be made available to authors if they provide their e-mail addresses.