Readership
Academics, Administrators, Advanced Practice Nurses, Allied Health Professionals, Biomedical Researchers, Cardiologists, Clinical Pharmacists, Clinical Pharmacologists, Clinicians, Counselors, Critical Care Nurses, Critical Care Physicians, Demographers, Diabetologists, Endocrinologists, Environmental Epidemiologists, Epidemiologists, Exercise Physiologists, Family Practice Physicians, General Practitioners, Gerontologists, Health Scientists, Health Service Researchers, HyperTension Specialists, Immunologists, Industrial Hygienists, Industrial Scientists, Infectious Disease Specialists, Internists, Interventionalists, Nurse Practitioners, Nurse Practitioners/Physician Assistants, Nurses, Outcomes Manager, Pain Specialists, Pharmaco-Epidemiologists, Physiatrists, Physician Assistants, Physicians, Physicians - Medicine, Physiologists, Physiotherapists, Policy Makers, Primary Care Physicians, Public Health Professionals, Rehabilitation Therapists, Researchers, Residents, Social Scientists, Statisticians
Scope
Global Advances in Health and Medicine (Global Advances) is the official publication of the Academic Consortium for Integrative Medicine & Health, whose mission is to advance integrative medicine and health through academic medicine institutions and health systems.
Global Advances is a peer-reviewed, PubMed Central-indexed, open-access journal. We aim to advance the science and practice of integrative medicine and health by promoting dialogue and collaboration among healthcare providers from various disciplines, practice patterns, and cultures. The journal’s goal is to further develop the evidence base of the latest knowledge of basic, clinical, and epidemiological research on integrative medicine and health.
We consider integrative medicine and health to include approaches that reaffirm the importance of the relationship between practitioner and patient, focus on the whole person, are informed by evidence, and make use of all appropriate therapeutic and lifestyle approaches, healthcare professionals, and disciplines to achieve optimal health and healing.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, research and clinical practices on:
Interventions to promote health and well-being, prevent illness, and foster healthier lifestyles; Treatments for symptoms and disease that focus on whole-person approaches;
Strategies to prevent disease progression and provide palliative care; Randomized clinical trials of lifestyle interventions to prevent and treat chronic illnesses; Investigations of biomarkers that are associated with responses to integrative health interventions; Epidemiologic studies of integrative health practices and use; Predictors of enrollment and adherence in integrative health intervention studies; Qualitative studies on subjective experiences with integrative health interventions; Reports on new tools and technologies used to drive innovation in integrative medicine; Health services research in the integrative medicine and health context; Articles dealing with policy, ethical, and economic issues relevant to integrative health and medicine are also of interest.