Social and Health Sciences Journal

Social and Health Sciences (formerly the African Safety Promotion: A Journal of Injury and Violence Prevention) is a multidisciplinary forum for critical discussion and debate among scholars, practitioners, activists, students and policy-makers whose interests and work intersect with the social and health sciences. The journal welcomes theoretical, empirical, applied and policy submissions on such topics as: violence in its multiple forms, injury, health and safety promotion, community engagement, epidemiology, health economics, health systems research, structural and social determinants of health, and knowledge production in the social and health sciences. While based in Africa, Social and Health Sciences invites submissions from the broader Global South, as well as the Global North.

Social and Health Sciences is an accredited South African Post Secondary Education (SAPSE) journal. All articles in the journal are subject to peer review. Social and Health Sciences is published biannually and features original full-length articles, theoretical papers, reviews, commentaries, reflections, and short communications.

Subject Coverage
Issues of Social and Health Sciences’ predecessors addressed a variety of injury and violence related topics, such as:

• Critical social perspectives to injury and violence prevention
• Injury surveillance methodologies
• Costing techniques
• Epidemiological research findings
• Health systems research
• Risks and resiliences associated with violence and injuries in low- to middle-income contexts
• Best practices for injury prevention and containment

• Manuscripts should be in 12 point Times New Roman font, with the main headings in capitals and bold, and sub-headings in sentence case.
• All manuscripts should be typed in 1.5 spacing.
• No enumerations and section numbering should be included, and all graphs and tables should be inserted at the end of the document.
• All contributions should follow the sixth edition of the American Psychological Association (APA) style guide for referencing purposes.
• The manuscript must be accompanied by a note indicating that the article has not been published elsewhere. This note must be signed by all listed authors to indicate their agreement with the submission.
• Contributors may submit the names and contact details of two referees competent to review their manuscript.
• Manuscripts must be submitted to journal's co-editors, Prof. Ashley van Niekerk and/or Nick Malherbe. Please send manuscripts via email to: sahs@unisa.ac.za

There are four categories of submissions accepted for publication in Social and Health Sciences:

• Original Contributions
  Full scientific manuscripts submitted for this category should not exceed 6 000 words in length excluding the title, abstract, references, figures and tables.
• Literature Reviews
  Manuscripts submitted as a literature review should not exceed 6 000 words in total.
• Book Reviews
  Copies of books may be sent to the co-editors.
• Short Communications/Perspectives
  These communications include commentaries on events in the injury prevention sector, and organisation or programme reports. These should not exceed 2 500 words, excluding references

All original contributions and short research reports should have the following sections:

• Title Page: This page should include the title of the manuscript, all authors and their affiliations. Full contact details should be included for the corresponding author. The category in which the manuscript is to be submitted should be indicated at the top of the page.
•  All manuscripts, except short communications and book reviews, should include an abstract placed before the main text of the article. This abstract should not exceed 250 words in length. While all abstracts need to be submitted in English, authors are also allowed to submit translations of these abstracts in French or Swahili. Abstracts must be accompanied by a minimum of 5 keywords
• Main Text: The main text of the article should, as far as is appropriate, be divided into the following sections: Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion, and Prevention Implications/Conclusiom

Co-Editors

• Ashley van Niekerk, South African Medical Research Council and University of South Africa
• Nick Malherbe, University of South Africa and South African Medical Research Council

Managing Editor

• Ghouwa Ismail, University of South Africa and South African Medical Research Council

Editorial Assistant

• Josephine Cornell, University of South Africa and South African Medical Research Council

Editorial Board

• Hesham El-Sayed, Suez Canal University
• Kidist Bartolomeos, World Health Organization 
• Rajen Govender, University of Cape Town
• Roderick McClure, Monash University
• Milton Mutto, Pincer Training and Research Institute
• Colleen Saunders, University of Cape Town
• Tamara Shefer, University of the Western Cape
• Floretta Boonzaier, University of Cape Town
• Shahnaaz Suffla, South African Medical Research Council and University of South Africa
• Danai Mupotsa, University of the Witwatersrand
• Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Rutgers University 
• Kopano Ratele, University of South Africa and South African Medical Research Council
• Mohamed Seedat, University of South Africa
• Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni, University of Bayreuth
• Shrikant Bangdiwala, University of North Carolina  Chapel Hill

In order to subscribe to the SaHS, please contact Sabinet at info@sabinet.co.za or Tel: +27 +12 643 9500. You can also visit the Sabinet website at www.sabinet.co.za.

For more information, please contact Dr Ghouwa Ismail at sahs@unisa.ac.za

Social and Health Sciences 
Violence, Injury and Peace Research Unit
South African Medical Research Council
PO Box 19070
Tygerberg
7505
South Africa 
Tel: +27 +21 938 0441
Fax: +27 +21 938 0381