Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada: Research, Policy and Practice

About Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada: Research, Policy and Practice

A publication of the Public Health Agency of Canada

Published by authority of the Minister of Health.
© Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada, 2022
ISSN 2368-738X (Online)

Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada: Research, Policy and Practice (the HPCDP Journal) is a bilingual, peer-reviewed scientific journal of the Public Health Agency of Canada’s Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention Branch. The journal is open access and does not charge article processing fees.

The HPCDP Journal publishes monthly articles on disease prevention, health promotion and health equity in the areas of chronic diseases, injuries and life course health. Content includes research from fields such as public/community health, epidemiology, biostatistics, the behavioural and social sciences, and health services or economics.

The journal fosters collaboration between researchers, public health practitioners, health policy planners and related community professionals. It accepts all articles presenting Canadian research, studies using Canadian data or based on interventions conducted in Canada, or relevant to the Canadian context.

All views and opinions expressed in Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada articles are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the Public Health Agency of Canada or the Government of Canada.

At a glance

• Diamond Open Access
• 2020 CiteScore: 3.9 (Scopus)
• 2020 Impact Factor: 3.24 (Web of Science) 
• 175 000+ visits in 2019 (Canada.ca)
• Among top 1/3^rd of open access public health journals (SCImago)
• Indexed in Index Medicus/MEDLINE, DOAJ, Scopus, SciSearch®, Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition and ProQuest
• Archived in PubMed Central and Government of Canada Publications Catalogue

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