Welcome to the Editorial Manager® for Health Communication. Through this site, authors can submit manuscripts and track their progress up until acceptance for publication. Also on this site, reviewers can download manuscripts and submit their reviews to the editor, who will manage the entire process of submission, review, revision, and acceptance.

If you are new to Editorial Manager, please click the Register link at the top of this page and enter the requested information. You will then receive via e-mail a user name and password for future use. *NOTE: This is the only time you will ever need to register, even if your role changes from author to reviewer, for instance. Do not register again.

If you are already registered, please click the Login link at the top of this page and begin your session.

Should you encounter any difficulties using the site, please send an e-mail to emsupport@taylorandfrancis.com.

Authors—Please click the Login link at the top of this page and enter your username and password. Click the Author Login button and follow the instructions to submit your manuscript. If needed please refer to the Online Author Tutorial. For information regarding actual manuscript content and format, please click Instructions for Authors. *NOTE: Before a manuscript can be accepted for publication, a Taylor & Francis Copyright Form must must be signed by at least one contributor of a given manuscript and submitted to the editor's office via fax or mail.

Reviewers—Please click the Login link at the top of this page and enter your username and password. Click the Reviewer Login button. You can then accept/decline a review invitation, download manuscripts, and submit your reviews to the editor. Choose New Assignments to accept/decline a review invitation or choose Pending Assignments to access a manuscript you have already agreed to review. If needed please refer to the Online Reviewer Tutorial.

Editors—Please click the Login link at the top of this page and enter your username and password. Click the Editor Login button. Here you can manage for all manuscripts the entire process of submission, review, revision, and acceptance. If needed please refer to the Online Editor Tutorial.

All registered users

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Health Communication is dedicated to publishing scientific, scholarly articles on the relationship between communication and health. Submissions are welcomed from scholars and practitioners in communication, psychology, sociology, and the other social sciences as well as those in medicine, nursing, dentistry, physical therapy, dietetics, pharmacy, and the allied health professions. Although most of the published articles are data based, we also welcome pedagogical, methodological, theoretical, and applied submissions as well as reviews and policy pieces. Both qualitative and quantitative methods are appropriate. Areas to be addressed in the journal include, but are not limited to, provider–patient (or –family) interaction, communication and cooperation; health information; health promotion; interviewing; health public relations; and gerontological concerns. An important consideration for the judging of articles is the extent to which they focus on actual communicative behavior. Additionally, articles should be interesting and readable. They should also not rely on unnecessary jargon when plain language will suffice.

Please visit Health Communication online to view a sample issue, subscribe to the journal, or access additional information regarding the journal.