Collections and calls for papers

BMC Health Services Research is calling for submissions to a Collection of articles on advancing epidemic preparedness of health systems. The term epidemic preparedness encompasses all the activities that ar...

The COVID-19 pandemic has placed enormous pressures on the health service, and has exacerbated existing delays. In many countries, elective care was suspended, and routine referrals were reduced or stopped. ...

BMC Health Services Research is calling for submissions to its collection on decolonization of global health. This term describes a movement that emerged from a critical post-colonial reflection within the g...

BMC Health Services Research is calling for submissions to a Collection on Digital health and the healthcare workforce. The swift integration of digital tools brings new challenges, impacts workloads and use...

BMC Health Services Research is calling for submissions to a Collection on disasters, crisis, and emergency management within health services. The mass casualties, injuries, and population health deteriorati...

BMC Health Services Research is now accepting submissions focusing on economic evaluations of vaccination programs. Immunization is considered a key component of primary healthcare and has become essential n...

BMC Health Services Research is calling for submissions to our Collection on chronic shortages in investment, employment, and training of health workforce along with the need to continuously improve health s...

This collection welcomes submissions welcoming submissions that contribute to the health system strengthening in fragile and conflict-affected regions literature. We call upon the health services research co...

BMC Health Services Research is calling for submissions to our Collection on health services for people experiencing homelessness. People experiencing homelessness have poorer health than the general populat...

BMC Health Services Research is calling for papers on health services for substance use disorders. Along with a more general trend affecting mental health disorders, the COVID-19 pandemic led to an increase ...

BMC Health Services Research welcomes submissions that present health workforce evidence-based planning actions, policies, and closely related research. We are interested in work that examines all aspects of...

BMC Health Services Research calls for papers for its collection focusing on human immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV) care. We are particularly interested in implementation research on barriers and facilitators...

This collection welcomes submissions reporting innovative research broadly examining the environmental, political, and social factors that perpetuate health inequities and social injustices in health systems...

BMC Health Services Research is pleased to announce a new Collection titled "Innovations in mental health services". It is reported that one in five people in the US suffer from mental health problems every ...

Collection published in Research Involvement and Engagement, Health Research Policy and Systems, Implementation Science, Implementation Science Communications, BMC Medical Research Methodology, BMC Health Se...

• Anita Kothari
• Chris McCutcheon
• Ian D Graham

BMC Health Services Research is calling for submissions to our Collection on quality and safety of care in nursing home and care home settings. As people live longer, many live with one or more chronic condi...

BMC Health Services Research is calling for submissions to our Collection on Researching and measuring inequalities in healthcare. Healthcare inequalities, stemming from factors like socioeconomic status, ra...

This collection welcomes submissions that contribute to our understanding of how health systems respond and resist the pressures they face, and how we can sustainably strengthen health systems for the future...

BMC Health Services Research welcomes submissions for our upcoming Collection on Rural health services research. This collection invites original research articles that advance our understanding of rural hea...

BMC Health Services Research is calling for submissions to our Collection on Sustainability in health services. The healthcare sector, traditionally resource-intensive, is progressively acknowledging the imp...

Telehealth is an exciting area of research that, to a great extent, is transforming healthcare. In support of the rapid progress being made in the telehealth research field, the new launch journal BMC Digita...