AIMS, OBJECTIVES AND SCOPE

Journal Aims

The Journal of Medical and Multidisciplinary Healthcare Research (JMMHR) aims to provide a high-quality, peer-reviewed platform for the dissemination of original and clinically relevant research across medicine, healthcare, public health, allied health sciences, health services, and related multidisciplinary fields. The journal seeks to promote evidence-based healthcare by bringing together research addressing clinical practice, disease prevention, diagnosis, treatment, patient care, healthcare delivery, and population health.

Primary Objectives

The primary objectives of JMMHR are to:

• ✓ Promote multidisciplinary research integrating clinical medicine, healthcare practice, public health, allied health sciences, and health-service research.
• ✓ Encourage rigorous clinical, observational, epidemiological, healthcare, and population-based research addressing important health and healthcare challenges.
• ✓ Provide a credible scholarly platform for clinicians, healthcare professionals, researchers, educators, public-health practitioners, and postgraduate investigators.
• ✓ Support evidence-based clinical practice, patient safety, healthcare quality improvement, disease prevention, and effective models of healthcare delivery.
• ✓ Promote ethical research practices, responsible peer review, transparent scholarly communication, and research integrity.
• ✓ Facilitate the international exchange of reliable healthcare evidence and encourage collaboration across clinical, public-health, social, and allied-health disciplines.

Core Focus and Research Interface

JMMHR focuses on the multidisciplinary interface between clinical medicine, healthcare delivery, public health, patient-centered care, and health systems. The journal provides an international forum for research that contributes to improved understanding of health and disease while supporting practical approaches to prevention, diagnosis, treatment, rehabilitation, patient safety, and healthcare quality.

The journal welcomes clinical, observational, epidemiological, public-health, health-services, community-based, and multidisciplinary investigations. Areas of particular relevance include clinical outcomes, healthcare quality and safety, disease prevention, health promotion, diagnostic and therapeutic practices, healthcare utilization, health policy, epidemiology, digital health, nursing and allied health practice, rehabilitation, and emerging models of multidisciplinary healthcare.

JMMHR considers quantitative, qualitative, mixed-methods, observational, interventional, systematic, and evidence-synthesis research across relevant healthcare disciplines, provided that submissions demonstrate appropriate methodological rigor, ethical compliance, scientific validity, and clear relevance to the journal's multidisciplinary healthcare scope.

Acceptable Article Formats

The journal welcomes scholarly contributions that provide meaningful evidence for clinical practice, healthcare delivery, public health, and multidisciplinary health research. Subject to editorial assessment and applicable journal policies, JMMHR considers the following article formats:

Scholarly Disciplines Covered

JMMHR considers multidisciplinary scholarly work across a broad spectrum of medicine, healthcare, public health, allied health, and health-service disciplines, including but not limited to:

• • Clinical medicine and major medical specialties
• • General practice, family medicine, and primary healthcare
• • Nursing science and nursing practice
• • Allied health sciences and healthcare professional practice
• • Public health, preventive medicine, and health promotion
• • Epidemiology, biostatistics, and population health
• • Healthcare quality, patient safety, and clinical governance
• • Health services research and healthcare delivery systems
• • Health policy, health economics, and healthcare management
• • Community health and population-based interventions
• • Maternal, reproductive, neonatal, and child health
• • Mental health and behavioral health
• • Nutrition, dietetics, and lifestyle-related health research
• • Rehabilitation, physiotherapy, and disability-related healthcare
• • Pharmacy, pharmacotherapy, and medication-related healthcare research
• • Laboratory medicine and diagnostic healthcare sciences
• • Digital health, telemedicine, and healthcare information systems
• • Emergency medicine, critical care, and acute healthcare services
• • Environmental and occupational health
• • Multidisciplinary and emerging healthcare research

Indexing & Digital Dissemination

JMMHR is committed to improving the visibility, accessibility, discoverability, and long-term preservation of published healthcare research. The journal seeks to follow recognized technical, editorial, and ethical standards in scholarly publishing and to develop the digital infrastructure required for consideration by reputable indexing, abstracting, and scholarly discovery services.

The journal's digital publishing framework is designed to support scholarly discovery, persistent identification, metadata interoperability, and repository harvesting through appropriate standards and services. These may include Google Scholar, Crossref for DOI registration, DOAJ, OAI-PMH compliant repositories, and other appropriate scholarly discovery and indexing services, subject to their respective eligibility requirements and independent evaluation processes.

* Indexing statement: Inclusion in any indexing, abstracting, or scholarly discovery service is subject to the independent policies, evaluation criteria, and acceptance decisions of the respective service. JMMHR will pursue appropriate applications progressively as the journal develops its publication record and meets relevant technical, editorial, ethical, and quality requirements.