Abstract
We are pleased to announce that Global Advances in Health and Medicine (Global Advances) now serves as the official publication of the Academic Consortium for Integrative Medicine & Health and is published by SAGE. While Global Advances is independent editorially from both the Academic Consortium and SAGE, the journal benefits from the Consortium’s commitment to improving health outcomes worldwide and SAGE’s status as a leading international publisher that shapes healthcare-related innovation across disciplines.
Global Advances serves an as international forum to facilitate broader dialogue and collaboration among healthcare providers from various disciplines, and across diverse practice patterns, cultures, and industry fields. With an emphasis on whole-person care, Global Advances recognizes that the causes and manifestations of illness, health, and well-being reflect an interplay between the individual’s mind, body, and spirit as each person encounters all elements of the human condition—physical, social, and environmental—as coherently organized, interconnected, and interdependent parts. Global Advances publishes original research, brief reports, systematic reviews and meta-analyses, case reports, and case series dealing with the full range of whole-person health and well-being, from the perspective of the individual to the community.
With a new team of Editors and Editorial Board in place, Global Advances affirms and furthers the values that have guided the journal to date. We pledge to do so in the following ways:
We provide an open-access venue for the dissemination of research findings, sharing of knowledge, and advancement of ideas. This open-access status makes it possible for readers across the globe to access all current and past content at no direct cost to them. We manage a timely, comprehensive, and fair peer-review process. We recognize the critical importance of timely and professional peer review. We pledge to minimize the time that elapses from the time that a manuscript is submitted by authors to when the article is published. We value and prioritize quality over quantity. We do not have a financial incentive to publish content that is not of high quality or does not otherwise have much potential to make a significant contribution to the advancement of science or to appropriately inform decision-making.
As the new co-Editors-in-Chiefs, we invite you to work with us, our team of Associates Editors and our Editorial Board, the Academic Consortium for Integrative Medicine & Health, and SAGE to share and disseminate important research findings, observations, insights, and other scholarly works that will provide the broad diversity of health professionals with the latest knowledge from basic, clinical, epidemiological research to population health.