Author Guidelines

Healthcare Issues (ISSN: 2583-7796) is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access journal published by Jagua Publication. The journal publishes scholarly work in medical science and related healthcare disciplines.

Article Types

The journal considers Research Articles, Review Articles, Survey Papers, Brief Communications, Short Reports, Case Reports, Case Series, Technical or Methodological Articles, Letters to the Editor, Editorials, and Commentaries, subject to editorial assessment and the journal's scope.

Initial Submission

Healthcare Issues follows a free-format initial submission policy. Authors are not required to use a specific journal template, journal-specific reference style, or prescribed typesetting format at the initial submission stage.

Manuscripts may be submitted in a clear and readable standard Word or LaTeX format. The manuscript should contain sufficient information for editorial assessment and peer review.

Recommended Manuscript Structure

Where applicable, manuscripts should include:

Title and Author Information
Abstract and Keywords
Introduction or Background
Materials and Methods or Methodology
Results or Findings
Discussion
Conclusions
Funding Statement
Author Contributions
Conflict of Interest Statement
Ethical Statement
Informed Consent Statement, where applicable
Data Availability Statement, where applicable
Acknowledgements, where applicable

Authorship and Contributions

Authorship should reflect substantial intellectual or scholarly contributions to the work. All authors must have approved the submitted manuscript, approved the final version, and accept responsibility for their contributions and the integrity of the work.

Healthcare Issues follows the authorship and contributorship principles described in the ICMJE Recommendations.

Originality and Exclusive Submission

Submitted manuscripts must be original and must not be simultaneously under consideration by another journal. Authors must disclose relevant prior publication, preprints, conference presentations, datasets, or substantially related manuscripts.

Human Participants and Medical Research

Research involving human participants must comply with applicable ethical, institutional, legal, and regulatory requirements. Where applicable, authors must provide the name of the ethics committee or institutional review board, approval or reference number, or a justified statement of exemption.

Research involving human participants should be conducted in accordance with the ethical principles of the World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki.

Informed Consent and Patient Privacy

Appropriate informed consent must be obtained where required. Case reports, clinical photographs, identifiable patient information, interviews, and other potentially identifying material must comply with applicable consent and privacy requirements.

Authors must remove unnecessary identifying information and should not publish identifiable patient information without appropriate consent.

Clinical Trials

Clinical trials should be registered in an appropriate publicly accessible trial registry before or as required by applicable registration standards. Authors should provide the trial registration number and registry name where applicable.

Authors should consult the ICMJE Clinical Trial Registration guidance.

Animal Research

Research involving animals must comply with applicable institutional, national, and international standards for animal welfare and ethical research. Where applicable, authors should provide the relevant ethics approval or institutional authorization.

Authors should follow the ARRIVE guidelines when reporting research involving animals.

Reporting Guidelines

Authors should use recognized reporting guidelines appropriate to the study design. Relevant examples include:

CONSORT – randomized controlled trials
STROBE – observational studies
PRISMA – systematic reviews and meta-analyses
CARE – case reports
ARRIVE – animal research
STARD – diagnostic accuracy studies
COREQ – qualitative research
SRQR – qualitative and mixed-methods research

Authors may consult the EQUATOR Network Reporting Guidelines Library to identify the appropriate reporting standard for their study.

Funding

All sources of financial support for the reported work must be disclosed. Authors should state the role of the funding organization in study design, data collection, analysis, interpretation, manuscript preparation, and the decision to submit the manuscript, where applicable.

Conflict of Interest

Authors must disclose actual, potential, or perceived conflicts of interest. Where no relevant conflict exists, an appropriate declaration should be included.

Conflict-of-interest disclosure should follow the principles described in the ICMJE Recommendations.

Data Availability

A Data Availability Statement should be provided where applicable. Supporting data should be made available when ethically, legally, and practically possible, subject to participant privacy, confidentiality, intellectual property, and other legitimate restrictions.

Artificial Intelligence

Authors must disclose the use of generative AI or AI-assisted technologies where such use materially contributes to manuscript preparation, analysis, image generation, or other aspects of the work. AI tools cannot be listed as authors.

Authors remain fully responsible for the accuracy, originality, integrity, citations, confidentiality, and ethical compliance of the submitted work. Authors should follow the ICMJE guidance on Artificial Intelligence in Publishing.

References

References should be accurate, complete, and relevant to the manuscript. A specific journal-formatted reference style is not required for initial submission. Authors should use a consistent scholarly reference format and ensure that all cited sources can be verified.

Peer Review

Healthcare Issues uses a single-blind peer-review process. Reviewer identities are not disclosed to authors, while author identities are available to reviewers.

Authors may be asked to suggest qualified reviewers. Suggested reviewers must be independent and must not have a personal, professional, institutional, or other relationship that could compromise impartiality.

Optional Production and Technical Support

After acceptance, authors who require assistance with final manuscript preparation, production-related technical checks, or file preparation may request optional Production and Technical Support from Jagua Publication at a charge of USD 50 per manuscript.

This service is entirely optional and is not a condition of acceptance or publication. Authors who prepare and submit their final files themselves do not need to pay this charge.

The optional service does not influence peer review, editorial decisions, or manuscript acceptance.

Publication Ethics

Authors must comply with the journal's Ethical Principles and Publication Policy, including requirements concerning research ethics, authorship, originality, plagiarism, conflicts of interest, data integrity, corrections, retractions, and appeals.

The journal's publication-ethics framework is informed by the COPE Core Practices and the ICMJE Recommendations.