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Two of the journals, BMC Biology and BMC Medicine, have a broad scope, and aim to publish particularly significant research. A third journal, BMC Research Notes, publishes scientifically valid research outputs that cannot be considered as full research or methodology articles across all scientific and clinical disciplines, [10] while BMC ...
BMC Infectious Diseases; BMC International Health and Human Rights; ... Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer Research; The Journal of Headache and Pain;
Diseases of poverty, also known as poverty-related diseases, are diseases that are more prevalent in low-income populations. [1] They include infectious diseases, as well as diseases related to malnutrition and poor health behaviour. Poverty is one of the major social determinants of health.
In contrast, the diseases of poverty have tended to be largely infectious diseases, or the result of poor living conditions. These include tuberculosis, malaria, and intestinal diseases. [5] Increasingly, research is finding that diseases thought to be diseases of affluence also appear in large part in the poor.
BMC Public Health is a peer-reviewed open-access scientific journal that covers epidemiology of disease and various aspects of public health. [1] The journal was established in 2001 and is published by BioMed Central .
The 10/90 gap is the term adopted by the Global Forum for Health Research to highlight the finding by the Commission on Health Research for Development in 1990, that less than 10% of worldwide resources devoted to health research were put towards health in Developing Countries, where over 90% of all preventable deaths worldwide occurred. [1]
Poverty has been linked to higher prevalence of many health conditions, including increased risk of chronic disease, injury, deprived infant development, stress, anxiety, depression, and premature death. [2] These health conditions of poverty most burden vulnerable groups such as women, children, ethnic minorities, and disabled people. [2]
BMC Medicine is a peer-reviewed open access medical journal published since 2003 by BioMed Central. The journal is abstracted and indexed in Chemical Abstracts Service, BIOSIS Previews, Embase, MEDLINE, Science Citation Index Expanded, and Scopus. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2022 impact factor of 9.3. [1]