Equity Neuroscience (EQN)

Background

• Neurological diseases have now overtaken cardiovascular diseases to be the world’s leading cause of morbidity and morbidity largely due to increasingly disparate outcomes across the globe

• As such several organizations, are prioritizing initiatives to assure optimal brain health for all in the 21st Century

• However, there are prominent differences in the ability of certain groups to achieve optimal brain health.

• These longstanding inequities in neurological outcomes continue largely unabated, unresolved, and unexplained, despite major advances in the management of neurological disease

• Projections indicate the neurological inequities by sex/gender, race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, geography (rural/ethnic), and global region (especially LMICs) will get worse over time

 

Description

• Equity Neuroscience (EQN) seeks to be the leading peer-reviewed open access online journal, which publishes the scholarly progress of work to understand, address, and ultimately eliminate neurological inequities based on sex, race, ethnicity, geography, and socioeconomic status

• EQN will provide authoritative interdisciplinary and interprofessional information about neurological inequities among underserved and vulnerable populations with the goal of providing optimal outcomes and ultimately brain health equity for all. Its coverage will range from basic science to translational research to prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and management of neurological disease

• The Journal will also serve as a primary resource for organizations, policymakers, and individuals who serve neurologically disparate populations at the community, state, regional, tribal, national, and international levels

• The overarching goal is to publish high-quality, high-impact, and innovative research articles in all areas related to brain health disparities

 

Scope

• Efforts to explore underlying causes of neurological inequities and to describe interventions that have been undertaken to address major neurological inequities will be featured

• Promising studies that are ongoing or studies that have longer term data would be welcome, as are studies that serve as lessons for best practices in eliminating neurological inequities

• EQN will cover all aspects of neurological inequities including social, cultural, behavioral, environmental, genetic, and epigenetic determinants contributing to differences in neurological disorder incidence, prevalence, death, survivorship, and burden of neurological diseases that exist among different populations around the world

• EQN welcomes articles that promote multi‐, inter‐, and trans‐disciplinary research and foster a scholarly community with different expertise and resources, to develop new, synergistic perspectives.

 

Articles

• EQN will publish multidisciplinary editorials, commentaries, hypothesis, short and full-length reviews, full-length original clinical or basic science research articles, short articles of immediate scientific or clinical significance, and study design/methodology/protocol papers.

• Inequities published will include at the metabolic, molecular, genetic, epigenetic, physiological, clinical, diagnostic, prevention, population, and therapeutic levels

• EQN would particularly welcome review articles that generate innovative and testable ideas, and constructive discussions and/or critiques of neurological inequities

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Audience

• Neurologists, psychiatrists, neurosurgeons, internists, pediatricians, geriatricians, basic/translational neuroscientists, epidemiologists, population health scientists, health services researchers, health equity researchers, global health researchers, and health policy researchers