Aims and Scope
African Journal of Medicine, Surgery and Public Health Research publishes peer-reviewed research across medicine, surgery, and public health that strengthens clinical care, surgical practice, prevention, population health, and health systems improvement. The journal welcomes analytically rigorous and ethically grounded studies that contribute to diagnosis, treatment, operative care, epidemiology, community health, policy, and evidence-informed health interventions in diverse local and global contexts.
Medicine Surgery Public Health Prevention & Care Ethics & Equity
Aims
Advance Medical, Surgical, and Population Health Knowledge
Publish high-quality research that improves understanding and management of individual and population health challenges.
Support Evidence-Based Clinical and Surgical Practice
Disseminate studies that strengthen diagnosis, treatment, operative care, recovery, and healthcare quality through valid evidence.
Promote Prevention, Equity, and Health Systems Improvement
Encourage research on epidemiology, health promotion, access, policy, and service delivery that improves public health outcomes.
Strengthen Ethical, Context-Sensitive Health Research
Welcome studies that demonstrate appropriate ethics, methodological rigor, and relevance to local, regional, and international health priorities.
Authors are encouraged to report the clinical or public health problem, study design, participant or population characteristics, intervention or exposure details, analytic methods, ethical approval, and implications for practice and policy.
Scope
The journal considers original clinical and surgical research, epidemiological and public health studies, health services investigations, intervention evaluations, methodological papers, and systematic or scoping reviews in medicine, surgery, and public health. Submissions should demonstrate methodological robustness, transparent reporting, appropriate ethical safeguards, and clear relevance to healthcare improvement.
1) General and Specialized Medical Research
Internal medicine and specialty-focused studies on diagnosis, disease mechanisms, treatment, prognosis, and patient outcomes.
2) Surgical Science and Operative Care
Preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative care, surgical techniques, perioperative outcomes, trauma care, and procedure-related evaluation.
3) Epidemiology and Disease Prevention
Disease surveillance, risk-factor analysis, outbreak response, prevention strategies, screening, and population-based health assessment.
4) Community, Environmental, and Global Health
Maternal and child health, occupational and environmental health, health inequities, community interventions, and global health challenges.
5) Health Systems, Policy, and Service Delivery
Primary care, referral systems, hospital management, workforce issues, financing, implementation studies, and policy evaluation.
6) Emergency, Critical, and Disaster Health Research
Emergency medicine, critical care, disaster preparedness, humanitarian health, and resilience-oriented healthcare research.
7) Behavioral, Educational, and Preventive Health Interventions
Health promotion, behavior change, patient education, vaccination, adherence, and preventive-program evaluation.
8) Evidence Synthesis and Cross-Cutting Methods
Systematic reviews, scoping reviews, methodological advances, and integrative health research spanning medicine, surgery, and public health.
Types of Manuscripts Considered
The journal considers, among others: original clinical research articles, surgical outcome studies, epidemiological investigations, interventional and observational studies, health systems and policy analyses, methodological papers, implementation reports, and systematic or scoping reviews with transparent procedures. Submissions must present clear research questions, rigorous methods, valid interpretation, and ethically responsible practice.
African Journal of Medicine, Surgery and Public Health Research publishes internationally relevant and ethically grounded scholarship that advances medicine, surgical care, public health practice, and equitable health improvement.