E-DRUG: Call for Papers on Antibiotic Usage and Resistance
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Call for Papers: Southern Med Review (ISSN: 1174-2704)
dear E-druggers,
Southern Med Review together with Action on Antibiotic Resistance (ReAct) will be publishing a special issue of the Journal on antibiotic usage and resistance (AUR) in April 2013. Papers are accepted from authors resident in the Global south as well as those researchers resident in higher income countries that undertake global research. Research undertaken in the developed world that has relevance to the Global South is welcome, in particular.
The scope of the special edition on AUR will cover any of the following themes:
* the prevention and management of infection (in the context of changing the determinants of AUR and containing the spread of resistant genes and bacteria), monitoring and containing antibiotic resistance and monitoring and improving antibiotic use; the social-psychology of antibiotic resistance and antibiotics and alternatives from within a health professional and/or a lay perspective (adherence, resistance, negotiation); public understanding of resistance and antibiotics and its costs/benefits; sources of influence including (community peer to peer edu-communication and empowerment, direct-to-consumer advertising, pharmacist-as-educator, access to physician or other advisor);
* Antibiotic situation analysis at any level including access to antibiotics (over and under), affordability, alternatives, infection prevention supplies: pricing; generic products; cost containment; the application of pharmaco-economics and projection of future resistance costs from using antibiotics wrongly now;
* Effective communication of the issue and its underlying causes, implications and what to do to for general, professional policy or other specific audiences: communicating ABR, better use of antibiotics and alternatives; the public's knowledge of their (non)entitlement to health care with respect to antibiotics, infection control in health facilities and diagnostics based on local, regional or national health and pharmaceutical policy; influence of such policy on health seeking behaviour;
* Interventions including health system interventions or health system building to improve containment of resistance and cost-effective treatment of bacterial infections taking resistance into account. How does the system impede or enable access to antibiotics, related medicines and diagnostics; Economic questions related to the consumer and access to medicines;
* Quality of antibiotics: counterfeit, substandard, incidence of suspected treatment failure. Pharmacovigilance of antibiotics: suspected treatment failure, adverse effects;
* Philosophy, cultural and social concepts of resistance including the relation of humans, microbes and the (macro and micro) ecosystem;
* Addressing the failure of the R&D pipeline to discover new antibiotics, other treatments and diagnostic technology for bacterial infection including new business models;
* Reflections, reviews of previous work in the light of the challenge to change our system of finding new technology, improving effectiveness of health systems, health professionals, patients and society in general to rapidly diagnose, prevent and manage infection
About the Journal and Submission of Papers
The journal is indexed in PubMed Central, Scopus, CrossRef, EMBASE, Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), EBSCO Host, , Gale, Global Health, CAB Abstract Databases, Ulrich's Periodical Directory, New Zealand's National Library and in WHO's Essential Medicines Documentation Database
www.fmhs.auckland.ac.nz/sop/smr
www.southernmedreview.org
PubMed Central: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/journals/1901/
Kindly submit your articles to the editors by using the following emails.
The submission deadline is 10th December 2012.
Types of article accepted for review include; full research papers, review articles, viewpoints, policy briefs, commentaries, and opinions.
Editors: Zaheer Babar, Shane Scahill s.scahill@auckland.ac.nz
Guest Editor: Mary Murray
regards,
Zaheer Babar (Editor, Southern Med Review, University of Auckland) z.babar@auckland.ac.nz<mailto:z.babar@auckland.ac.nz>
Mary Murray (Global Network Coordinator, ReAct ) memhmh@ozemail.com.au<mailto:memhmh@ozemail.com.au>
Michael Chai (Coordinator, ReAct SEA) chai.mikael@gmail.com<mailto:chai.mikael@gmail.com>
Otto Cars (Director, ReAct) otto.cars@smi.se<mailto:otto.cars@smi.se>