The manuscripts may only be submitted through https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/estudamhsd which is an online article submission and evaluation system. Manuscripts sent from any other means will not be taken into consideration.

Manuscripts will first go through a technical evaluation process where the editorial staff will make sure that the article is prepared and submitted in accordance with the journal's guidelines. Manuscripts that do not comply with the journal's guidelines will be returned to the corresponding author with technical correction requests.

Traditional reviews: These reviews are prepared by authors who have extensive knowledge of a particular field and whose scientific background is widely recognized. So much so that these authors can be invited by the journal. The review should describe, discuss and evaluate the current level of knowledge of a topic in public health practice and guide future studies. The main text should contain Introduction, Research Results, and Conclusion sections. It should contain an unstructured abstract of no more than 250 words. The main text is limited to 4,000 words. The reference limit is 40, the table limit is 6, and the figure limit is 6.

Systematic reviews: It is the systematic and unbiased screening of original studies published in that field in accordance with the specified criteria, evaluating the validity of the studies found and combining them by synthesizing in order to find an answer to a research question prepared on a particular subject. Meta-analysis is optional. Systematic reviews will be assessed as original articles. Details of expectations regarding systematic reviews may be found at Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Review of Interventions available from http://training.cochrane.org/handbook address. It should contain an unstructured abstract of no more than 250 words. The main text should include Introduction, Methods (data sources, study eligibility criteria, participants, interventions, and statistical analysis), Results, Discussion, and Conclusion sections. The main text is limited to 4,000 words. The number of references will depend on the scope of the subject being studied, but should not exceed 60. Table limit is 6, and figure limit is 6.

The Journal accepts, embraces and performs the principles of Comitee on Publication Ethics (COPEⓒ). The authors can easily access the principles, flowcharts and cases of COPEⓒ via https://publicationethics.org/guidance/Guidelines , https://publicationethics.org/guidance/Flowcharts , https://publicationethics.org/guidance/Case links.

It is essential that human and animal rights are not violated in studies. in studies where people are participants or animal subjects are used, ethics committee approval should be obtained from the authorities (universities, institutes, Ministry of Health, etc.), which are based on the Declaration of Helsinki. In the material and method section of the manuscript, an explanation about patient approval and ethics committee name, ethics committee approval date and number should be specified.

In animal studies, the precautions taken to prevent the pain and suffering of the animals should be clearly stated. It is the authors 'responsibility to carefully maintain patients' anonymity. For photographs that can reveal the identity of the patients, the signed permission documents of the patient or his legal representative must be attached.

In the ethics committee approval document; all authors whose names are mentioned in the study must be included. Anyone who is not named in the ethics committee will not be allowed to unfairly appear in the publication within the scope of gift authorship or other interests. It should be clearly stated in which part of the study the researchers took part In the ethics committee document.

In all studies submitted to the journal, there should be no violation in terms of plagiarism, duplication, slicing publication and the authors are obliged in this regard. Editors, whenever they deem necessary, can handle the work in terms of these elements and audit them with some licensed software. Authors are deemed to have accepted this when submitting the publication.

Any study that contradicts COPEⓒ principles can not be published in the journal.