by JPHMP Direct The series is FREE, so enroll now! Practice-based research is at the core of the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice (JPHMP) mission. Practitioners are doing good and important work, inside and outside COVID-19 response, and are doing work that the broader community might benefit from learning more about. State and local public health practitioners are
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The Journal of Public Health Management and Practice has developed a tool, with assistance from the de Beaumont Foundation, that enables authors to create an article from scratch by following user-friendly cues that walk them through the IMRAD process of scientific writing. This new tool is designed for epidemiologists, public health scientists, and other public health professionals seeking to become
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In previous iterations of this series, I’ve given advice about writing the results and discussion sections of your manuscript for submission to the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice (JPHMP). Arguably, I’ve saved the most important section for the third in the series, as the methods section of your manuscript contains the material that most people will use to
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Ostensibly, the results section of an article should be the easiest to write. The analysis section of the manuscript tells the reader what the authors did with the data, and the results section simply presents the output of those analyses in a format that is, at least hypothetically, easy to understand and interpret. Unfortunately, things that are hypothetically one way don’t
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I’ve long joked that graduate study is marked at the beginning by reading only the introduction and discussion sections of scientific articles, and at the end by reading only the methods and results sections. This is obviously not entirely accurate, but it represents the transition from wondering what others think about what they found to forming your own opinion of
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One of the most oft-repeated statements in the academy is “I really should be writing.” It has even evolved into a number of humorous memes that you shouldn’t search for (since you should be writing). Despite the ubiquity of frustrations over self-sabotage of the writing process, there are a number of productive scholars who successfully produce a robust body of
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One of the most oft-repeated statements in the academy is “I really should be writing.” It has even evolved into a number of humorous memes that you shouldn’t search for (since you should be writing). Despite the ubiquity of frustrations over self-sabotage of the writing process, there are a number of productive scholars who successfully produce a robust body of
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Regardless of your stage of training, public health discipline, or area of focus, you will undoubtedly need to conduct a search of the literature to identify epidemiologic data, evidence-based practices, measures, methods, or tools to support and enhance your work. While there are a number of search engines available to you, both governmental (eg, PubMed) and commercial (eg, Ovid, Google
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At some point in the writing process, the lead author of a manuscript must decide where to submit the final product. There are a lot of factors for consideration, some good, some bad, and some ugly. I am going to take them in the reverse order. selecting best journal outlet The Ugly One reason that people consider submitting their work
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A number of years ago when the Journal of Public Health Management & Practice adopted a structured article format for full-length articles, I published an editorial introducing this change in the journal’s format. Naively, I thought that the editorial would be sufficient guidance. In the intervening years I’ve worked on the journal, I’ve fielded numerous questions about the format of
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