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Call for papers - Promoting health equity among aging adults

Guest Editors

Samar Al-Hajj, PhD, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
Alessandra Buja, PhD, University of Padua, Italy
Himanshu Sekhar Rout, PhD, Utkal University, India

Submission Status: Open   |   Submission Deadline: 24 July 2025

BMC Public Health invites submissions to our new Collection, Promoting health equity among aging adults.
The aging population is a growing demographic worldwide, and with it comes a range of health challenges and disparities.
Promoting health equity among aging adults is a critical area of public health research, encompassing the intersection of social determinants, healthcare access, and the unique health needs of older individuals.
This Collection seeks to gather research that addresses the multifaceted nature of health disparities among aging adults, explores effective health promotion strategies, and the impact of social and environmental factors on the health outcomes of older populations.

New Content ItemThis Collection supports and amplifies research related to SDG 3: Good Health and Wellbeing and SDG 10: Reduced Inequalities.

Meet the Guest Editors

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Samar Al-Hajj, PhD, American University of Beirut, Lebanon

Dr Hajj is the Associate Director for Continuing Medical Education, at the American University of Beirut Medial Center (AUBMC), supporting and delivering medical training programs to clinicians and health professionals in Lebanon and the Eastern Mediterranean Region. Currently, she’s the founding Director for the Middle East and North Africa Program for Advanced Injury Research (MENA PAIR) Program, where she leads multiple injury research studies to assess the burden of injury morbidity and mortality in Lebanon and the MENA Region. She’s also the Director of the Injury and Concussion Awareness Recognition and Education (ICARE) program that aims to prevent injuries and concussions among school children in Lebanon and the region.
 

Alessandra Buja, PhD, University of Padua, Italy

Dr Alessandra Buja, PhD, MD, is Associate Professor of Public Health at the Department of Cardiological, Vascular, Thoracic, and Public Health Sciences, University of Padua. In particular, she has conducted important research on studies on health promotion and disease risk factors in all age groups, as well as on the evaluation of the quality and costs of cancer care services. She is currently involved in the national project “Ageing well in an ageing society. Building institutional, biomedical, and technological solutions for a successful ageing society in Italy”.
 

Himanshu Sekhar Rout, PhD, Utkal University, India

Dr Himanshu Sekhar Rout, PhD is working in the Department of A&A Economics, and associated with the RUSA Centre of Excellence in Public Policy and Governance, Utkal University, India. He has 25 years of teaching and research experience, eight books, and more than 80 research papers published in national and international journals to his credit. The teaching domain of Prof. Rout is Health Economics, the Economics of Education, Indian Economic Planning and Development, and Research Methodology. His main areas of research are Economics of Social Sector (Health, Education, and Gender), Development Economics, and IPR (GIs).

About the Collection

BMC Public Health invites submissions to our new Collection, Promoting health equity among aging adults. The aging population is a growing demographic worldwide, and with it comes a range of health challenges and disparities. Promoting health equity among aging adults is a critical area of public health research, encompassing the intersection of social determinants, healthcare access, and the unique health needs of older individuals.
This Collection seeks to gather research that addresses the multifaceted nature of health disparities among aging adults, explores effective health promotion strategies, and the impact of social and environmental factors on the health outcomes of older populations.

We welcome submissions that delve into various aspects of health equity for the aging. Key topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Socioeconomic disparities in health outcomes
  • Access to healthcare services for older adults
  • Impact of race and ethnicity on aging health
  • Gender differences in aging and health equity
  • Rural vs. urban health disparities among the elderly
  • Health promotion and prevention in aging adults
  • Policy and legislative impacts on elderly health equity
  • Mental health and aging populations
  • Chronic disease management in older adults
  • Disability and aging: barriers and solutions


This Collection supports and amplifies research related to SDG 3: Good Health and Wellbeing and SDG 10: Reduced Inequalities.

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  1. The increasing trend of senior citizens and their complex healthcare needs demands the improvised provision of healthcare services and strategies to improve health service utilization to ensure health for all....

    Authors: Sujan Poudel, Anusha Parajuli, Nirmal Duwadi, Bal Krishna Bhatta, Shishir Paudel, Dhurba Khatri, Damaru Prasad Paneru and Yam Prasad Sharma
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2025 25:1512
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  2. This study sought to examine cardiovascular patients’ preferences for community health communication and to offer recommendations to boost the engagement with health communication programs.

    Authors: Wei Liu, Junhong Dong, Ying Zhang, Haojie Li, Jiayue Sun, Tianyu Xu, Zehui Li, Guangsheng Wan and Hui Yin
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2025 25:1185
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  3. Intrinsic capacity is a crucial indicator of adverse outcomes and has predictive value for diseases and mortality. The objective of this study is to assess the association between nighttime sleep duration and ...

    Authors: Baiyun Zhou, Ruijie Ma, Mang Wang and Yanmei Wang
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2025 25:1034
    Content type: Research Published on:

  4. Evidence on the association of clinical biomarker-based biological age (BA) with cardiovascular disease (CVD) and mortality remains insufficient, particularly concerning aging trajectories' relationship with t...

    Authors: Qiaoyun Dai, Huayu Sun, Xueying Yang, Shuohua Chen, Xinyuan Zhang, Zhe Yin, Xiujuan Zhao, Shouling Wu, Zongfu Cao, Yuntao Wu and Xu Ma
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2025 25:868
    Content type: Research Published on:

Submission Guidelines

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This Collection welcomes submission of original Research Articles. Should you wish to submit a different article type, please read our submission guidelines to confirm that type is accepted by the journal. Articles for this Collection should be submitted via our submission system, Snapp. During the submission process you will be asked whether you are submitting to a Collection, please select "Promoting health equity among aging adults" from the dropdown menu.

Articles will undergo the journal’s standard peer-review process and are subject to all of the journal’s standard policies. Articles will be added to the Collection as they are published.

The Editors have no competing interests with the submissions which they handle through the peer review process. The peer review of any submissions for which the Editors have competing interests is handled by another Editorial Board Member who has no competing interests.