Social Theory & Health
Last updated ISSN 1477-8211
Social Theory & Health is published by Palgrave Macmillan in health professions. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $3,090.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Social Theory & Health concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Mental Health and Patient Involvement
- Mental Health and Psychiatry
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Employment and Welfare Studies
- Obesity and Health Practices
- Empathy and Medical Education
- Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices
- Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
- Community Health and Development
- Healthcare innovation and challenges
Key facts
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1477-8211, 1477-822X |
| Subject area | Health Professions |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $3,090 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Social Sciences Citation Index · Scopus |
| Articles published | 566 |
| Publishing since | 2003 |
| Journal website | link.springer.com/journal/41285 |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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