CfP Social Change Review -- 2/2014

Special Edition
Winter 2014, Volume 12 (2)
Title: Social change and new challenges for the health care system

Special Issue Editors:
Adela Elena Popa – Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu
Dragoş Dragoman – Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu

Outline
Social Change Review is seeking to publish a special issue on the impact of social change on health, illness and the health care system. With processes of transformation affecting all areas of the social and political life, social change has become the hallmark of the world we live in. Haferkamp şi Smelser (1992: 10) consider social change as "such an evident feature of social reality that any social-scientific theory,…, must sooner or later address it". The proposed issue is addressing the direct or indirect implications and challenges the social change is bringing on health, illness and health care systems. We welcome papers that reflect the intense dynamics of social life in what concerns the health and illness issues, with respect to the active participation of users, innovative systems and practices of management. The papers could be based on case-studies or broader comparative analysis of cases in Europe and abroad.

Themes
Social Change Review welcomes original, interdisciplinary research, theoretical and empirical papers, based on either qualitative, quantitative or mixed methodology that reflect the current ideas and practices in the medical profession, health care assistance and also in the lay field.
- What is the influence of social change on health care system (analyses on reform and decentralization processes)
- What are the changes regarding how lay people and professionals in the medical field view, understand and relate to health and illness
- What are the changes regarding the life style (food consumption, smoking, alcohol, drug use, exercise, etc)
- Which are the new relationships, partnerships and services characterizing the health care system, with special emphasis on the medical management of isolated territories, especially remote rural areas
- How current social processes such as migration, multiculturalism, change of political systems, ethnicity and gender issues influence health and illness
- Which are the responses to the new challenges in the health field (ageing and growing population, the increasing number of patients with chronic and potentially fatal diseases, threats like pandemics)
- How homecare services integrate in the health care system and what are the implications in the market orientation of those services (the capacity of choice by the customers, the accessibility of services to all users, the flexibility, continuity and reliability of those services, the protection of customers etc.)
- In what way the ethical issues related to health and illness are changing today
- Analyses of national or worldwide health movements
Publication language: English

Deadline
The deadline for initial receipt of manuscripts is 10 September 2014. The final notification of acceptance will be made by in December 2014.

Reference
Haferkamp, H. and N. J. SMELSER. (Eds) 1992. Social Change and Modernity. Berkeley: University of California Press.

More information:
More information is available from:
Adela Elena Popa, adela.popa[at]ulbsibiu[dot]ro
Dragoş Dragoman, dragos.dragoman[at]ulbsibiu[dot]ro

Please consult the section Author Guidelines on the Social Change Review website for further information regarding the paper requirements and the review process.
socialchangereview.ro/

Adela Elena Popa,
Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu
adela.popa[at]ulbsibiu[dot]ro

Dragoş Dragoman,
Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu
dragos.dragoman[at]ulbsibiu[dot]ro