Mobilising Community Resources for Mental Health: Community Facilitators’ Insights from Estonian Counties
- Stella Täht-Vaik
- Merike Sisask
Original Research
04 September 2026
Overview
Journal of Prevention, the official journal of the European Society for Prevention Research, is a multidisciplinary journal that publishes manuscripts aimed at reducing negative social and health outcomes and promoting human health and well-being.
- Discusses evidence-based interventions, policies, and practices.
- Values diverse populations, age groups, and methodologies.
- Selects articles based based on their innovation, contribution to the field of prevention, and quality.
- Welcomes original research, research methods, practitioner narratives, debates, brief reports, policy papers, and review articles.
- Editor-in-Chief
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- Prof. Zila Sanchez PhD
Societies and partnerships
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European Society for Prevention Research
Journal metrics
- Journal Impact Factor
- 2.5 (2025)
- 5-year Journal Impact Factor
- 2.7 (2025)
- Submission to first decision (median)
- 8 days
- Downloads
- 330.1k (2025)
Latest articles
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A Scoping Review and Content Appraisal of Free Public Athlete Concussion Education Interventions
- Julia D. Drattell
- Emily Kroshus-Havril
- Julianne D. Schmidt
Review of the literature Open access 02 September 2026 -
"I simply see it as our responsibility in the club business": Key Stakeholder Perspectives on Setting-Based Harm Reduction Structures in Night Clubs in Berlin
- Lena Sophie Frey
- Ramona Schreyer
- Claudia Winkelmann
Original Research Open access 28 August 2026 -
Temporal Data Structure Is Not Causal Identification: A Practical Framework for Appraising Causal Claims in Prevention and Population Health Research
- Sunday Azagba
- Galappaththige S. R. de Silva
Debate Open access 28 August 2026 -
The Relationship Between Fetal Growth, Adult Lifestyle Patterns and the Risk of Cardiovascular Diseases
- Minjia Mo
- Jette Möller
- Yajun Liang
Original Research Open access 22 August 2026
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124 open access articles
Journal updates
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Call for Papers: Prevention and health promotion in the life course
Guest Editors
Maria Rosaria Galanti, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden rosaria.galanti@ki.se
Alejandro de la Torre-Luque, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain af.delatorre@ucm.es
Barbara Oliván-Blázquez, University of Zaragoza, Spain bolivan@unizar.es
This special issue of JOPP aims to offer an overview of methods to address trajectories of protections and risks in the life course, raising questions of intervention rationales, development, and evaluation.
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Call for Papers: Prevention and health promotion in and with communities: Best practices, challenges, and the road ahead
Guest Editors:
Giovanni Aresi, Catholic University of Milan, Italy (giovanni.aresi@unicatt.it)Samuel Tomczyk, University of Greifswald, Germany (samuel.tomczyk@uni-greifswald.de)
This special issue builds on the theme of the 15th EUSPR conference and members’ meeting (Prevention in and with Communities) and invites submissions that focus on prevention research and practice in and with community settings and systems.
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Supporting the Sustainable Development Goals
New Content ItemWe are proud to acknowledge that over 50% of the articles published in this journal in 2025 were related to one or more of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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Journal information
- Electronic ISSN
- 2731-5541
- Print ISSN
- 2731-5533
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