Background: With an increase in the number of disciplines contributing to health literacy scholarship, we sought to explore the nature of interdisciplinary research in the field. Objective: This study sought to describe disciplines that contribute to health literacy research and to quantify how disciplines draw from and contribute to an interdisciplinary evidence base, as measured by citation n...

Theory development and empirical research conducted at the intersection of communication and public health are advancing both academic disciplines and accelerating progress toward important societal goals. An exciting emergent new research framework that combines key aspects of these 2 disciplinary perspectives has developed and become known as public health communication. This article examines...

BACKGROUND Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) rankings are given to academic journals in which Australian academics publish. This provides a metric on which Australian institutions and disciplines are ranked for international competitiveness. This paper explores the issues surrounding the ERA rankings of allied health journals in Australia. METHODS We conducted a broad search to estab...

the History, Method and Motives of Social Pathology. By John A. Ryle, M.D. Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press. 12s. 6d. This small book of 122 pages, marks the beginning of a new era in social medicine. It is the result of lectures given in America by the author. Professor Ryle stresses the need for study of social pathology, statistics, research, the measurement of health, and has a ...