Congratulations Denis

 

 

 

Dear List Members,

International Journal of Childbirth (Springer Publishing)

We are delighted to announce the forthcoming publication of a new journal, the International Journal of Childbirth which will launch on line in mid October this year and in hard copy, in January 2011. It will be published quarterly and will be the official journal of the International Confederation of Midwives, along with their 93 member organisations. It has an international editorial board, representing childbirth stakeholders and childbirth specialists from all around the world.

The journal will publish high quality, peer reviewed articles with the following aims:

• to disseminate original research, theoretical insights, and accounts of practice based innovation, organization of care, in all areas of childbirth
• to provide a forum for exploration, debate, and critique in childbirth research, education and practice
• to promote multi-cultural and inter-disciplinary perspectives in the examination of childbirth experience and knowledge.
• to actively promote research, education and practice activity in neglected areas such as normal birth, measurement of wellbeing as opposed to pathology, indigenous childbirth practices and culture and the public health consequences of childbirth
• to disseminate original case studies of normal, though unusual births with a significant reflective component
• to provide an English language summary of selected highly significant papers that have not been published in English, to maximize international awareness of the body of knowledge in this area that may not be published in English

 

Our new journal will be of interest to midwives, maternity care & neonatal nurses, maternity service users, obstetricians, neonatologists, pediatricians, physiologists, health sociologists, physiotherapists, health economists, biologists and psychologists with an interest in maternal and infant research, maternity service policy makers and managers, academics in the area of childbirth and maternal and women’s health, doulas and traditional birth attendants, childbirth educationalists,  and students of maternity care.

The journal will publish the following types of articles:

• original research papers
• theoretical perspectives, philosophical papers
• innovations in practice, policy, service user involvement, or maternity care organization
• reflective narrative accounts of childbirth phenomenon and experiences
• education papers
• conference reports

 

We would like to encourage list members to consider submission of manuscripts to the journal. Approximately six original papers will be published per edition, together with shorter articles and reviews. Our deadline for papers is the 30^th of June, 2010. At this stage please submit papers as emails attachments to Kerri [log in to unmask] or myself [log in to unmask] until an electronic submission system is in place.

 

Best wishes,

Denis Walsh

Kerri Schuiling

Editors in Chief

The International Journal of Childbirth

Springer Publishing

 

 

Dr Denis Walsh

Associate Professor in Midwifery

University of Nottingham

Post Graduate Centre

City Hospital Nottingham

Hucknall Rd

Nottingham NG5 1PB

Tel: 0115 8231926

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