Journal of Child Health Care

Chinese Journal of Child Health Care (ISSN 1008-6579, CN 61-1346/R) was launched in 1993 and is supervised by China’s Ministry of Education. The journal is monthly published by both Xian Jiao Tong University and Chinese Preventive Medicine Association. It is the only professional journal on child health care in China

Aims

Chinese Journal of Child Health Care is a broad-based scholarly journal dedicated to improve the quality of child healthcare providers and to facilitate the healthy development of children. By publishing scholar reviews, original research studies and case reports, Chinese Journal of Child Health Care aims to build a communication platform for researchers to share their advancement and experience of child health care at home and abroad, as well as to introduce appropriate technologies.

Database

Chinese Journal of Child Health Care is abstracted and indexed by many important academic database, such as the Core Journals of China (2011), Source Journals for China Scientific and Technical Papers and Citations Database (CSTPCD), Chinese Academic Journal Comprehensive Evaluation Database (CAJCED), China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI), Research Center Chinese Science Evaluation (RCCSE) Database, American Chemical Abstracts (CA) and Abstracts Journal (AJ) in Russia.

Awards

The journal has been awarded as the first prize and the excellent prize in the serial journals of Chinese Preventive Medicine Association as well as an excellent academic journal in Shaanxi province and Chinese university for many times since 2005.

Sections

The journal will consider to publish medical papers falling into the following categories: scholar review, original articles, experiment research, meta-analysis, reviews, experience sharing, clinical research, health education, appropriate technologies and case report.

Fields of particular interest to the journal include (but are not limited to):

• Child nutrition and growth (including early nutrition and neonatal nutrition, dietary balance, nutrition and metabolism, growth and development of school-age children);

• Prevention and treatment of neonatal diseases (including fetal healthcare, neonatal jaundice, asphyxia, hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy, birth defects and congenital diseases);

• Psychological and behavioral healthcare in children (emotional education in early childhood, mental retardation, Adolescent behavioral and mental diseases);

• Prevention and treatment of pneumonia, anemia, rickets and diarrhea;

• Unintentional injuries (including correlation between environmental issues and children's health, unintentional injuries, child abuse and neglect issues);

• Others (including child early development, eye care, hearing care, advance of molecular biology in child health care).

Readers & Authors

The readers can be pediatricians, child health care providers, doctors in primary and secondary schools, as well as those who have been engaged in the education, research and management of child health care.

The authors include core group, periphery group and interdisciplinary group.

• Core group: such as health care providers in hospitals, mostly are doctors.

• Periphery group: those engaged in the disease prevention and management of women and children.

• Interdisciplinary group: most are pediatricians.

Editorial staff

Editor in chief: YANG Yu-feng

Editorial director：LEI Xiao-mei

Editors：LI Shao-wen, YANG Yuan-yuan, WANG Yue

Typesetter：WANG Shu-min

Editorial officer：CHANG Le