As a result of the significant disruption that is being caused by the COVID-19 pandemic we are very aware that many researchers will have difficulty in meeting the timelines associated with our peer review process during normal times. Please do let us know if you need additional time. Our systems will continue to remind you of the original timelines but we intend to be highly flexible at this time.
COVID-19 and impact on peer review
Disability at Midlife
Women’s Midlife Health is pleased to announce a call for papers for a special theme issue on Disability at Midlife. Guest edited by Carrie Karvonen-Gutierrez (University of Michigan) and Elsa Strotmeyer (University of Pittsburgh), this special issue will highlight the conceptualization and burden of disability and its impact on health and functioning during the midlife and late adulthood. We are looking for descriptive papers that document the burden and trajectory of disability as women age through the midlife as well as the relative disparities in disability by sex, race, socio-economic position and geography. We are interested in papers from a range of frameworks and conceptualizations of disability and how they augment scientific understanding of the process, burden and impact of disability during the midlife.
The due date for submissions has been extended. We now request that papers be submitted on a rolling basis. Papers can be submitted at http://womensmidlifehealthjournal.biomedcentral.com/
Thematic Series: Stress in Midlife
This series highlights key questions confronting women and clinicians regarding stress and its impact on health and functioning during the midlife years.
Thematic Series: Pain in Midlife
This series highlights the problem of pain in midlife and its impact on health and health behaviors during the midlife years and as women age.
Featured Blog: The Importance of Recognizing Disability in Midlife: Questions and Answer
The BMC Journal, Women’s Midlife Health, is running a thematic series titled “Disability in Midlife.” The series aims to highlight women in this specific subgroup. Recently, the blog team at BMC got a chance to speak with the series’ guest editors, Dr. Carrie Karvonen-Guitierrez, from The University of Michigan School of Public Health and Elsa Strotmeyer from the University of Pittsburgh, about the blog. There is currently an open Call For Papers for all those who would like to submit to the series.
Articles
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Mid-life predictors of late-life depressive symptoms; determining risk factors spanning two decades in the Women’s Heathy Ageing Project
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Vaginal, sexual and urinary symptoms following hysterectomy: a multi-centre randomized controlled trial
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A proper reference metabolic equivalent value to assess physical activity intensity in Japanese female nurses
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Types of pain and their psychosocial impact in women with rheumatoid arthritis
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Abdominal pain during the menopause transition and early postmenopause: observations from the Seattle Midlife Women’s Health Study
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Chronic vulvar pain in a cohort of post-menopausal women: Atrophy or Vulvodynia?
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Work outcomes in midlife women: the impact of menopause, work stress and working environment
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Depression in the menopause transition: risks in the changing hormone milieu as observed in the general population
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Rheumatic autoimmune diseases in women and midlife health
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Aims and scope
Women’s Midlife Health is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that considers original and review articles focused on the physical and mental health of women during midlife, including articles on aging, reproductive aging and their inter-relationship. The journal focuses on research that provides new insights into the health transitions that occur during midlife, welcoming research that examines the vulnerabilities and opportunities during this life stage and their consequences for healthy aging.
Women's Midlife Health aims to enhance understanding of the bi-directional relationships between changes in reproductive endocrinology and functioning, physical and mental health during midlife. It contributes to clinical and public health knowledge about common underling mechanisms of disease and functional decline and encourages submissions of translational research that may enhance opportunities for healthy aging.
The journal considers clinical and population-based research on health in the mid-life and its determinants and welcomes papers that provide international perspectives or data on the health of midlife women in low and middle income countries. Papers that consider the impact of the environment, occupation, and behavioural or social factors on health and disease processes during this lifestage are encouraged.
Topic areas include but are not restricted to
- Aging
- Arthritis and Bone Health
- Cancer
- Cardiovascular Health
- Cognitive and Physical Functioning
- Gynecology/ Reproductive Endocrinology
- Nutrition/ Obesity Diabetes/ Metabolic Syndrome
- Menopause, Ovarian Aging
- Mental Health
- Sexuality
- Sleep
- Quality of Life
About the Editors
Dr. Siobán D. Harlow, Editor-in-Chief
Siobán D. Harlow, PhD, is Professor of Epidemiology and Director of the Center for Integrated Approaches to Complex Diseases at the University of Michigan and Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology at Michigan State University. She is Principal Investigator of the Michigan site of the 20–year multi-ethnic cohort Study of Women’s Health Across the Nation (SWAN) and for the SWAN Repository and chaired the 2011 consensus conference: “STRAW+10: Addressing the Unfinished Agenda of Staging Reproductive Aging”. From 2003–2009, she served on the Scientific and Technical Advisory Group, Division of Reproductive Health Research, World Health Organization.
Dr. Nancy Fugate Woods, Editor-in-Chief
Nancy Fugate Woods, PhD, RN, FAAN, has led a sustained program of research in the field of women’s health. In 1989 Dr. Woods and her colleagues, including Dr. Joan Shaver, established the first NIH-funded Center for Women’s Health Research at the University of Washington School of Nursing.
Dr. Woods has served as president of the American Academy of Nursing, the North American Menopause Society, and the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research. She was honored with the American Nurses Foundation Distinguished Contribution to Nursing Research Award and the Pathfinder Award from the Friends of the National Institute for Nursing Research.
Dr. Woods was elected to the Institute of Medicine (now National Academy of Medicine) and to the American Academy of Nursing for her research, education, and advocacy advancing women’s health. She was elected to fellowship in the Gerontological Society of America.
Annual Journal Metrics
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Speed
93 days to first decision for reviewed manuscripts only
77 days to first decision for all manuscripts
231 days from submission to acceptance
15 days from acceptance to publicationUsage
30,101 downloads
78 mentions
Upcoming conferences
September 2019
The North American Menopause Society
September 25-28
Chicago, USA
October 2019
American Society for Reproductive Medicine
October 12-16
Philadelphia, PA
April 2020
International Menopause Society World Congress on The Menopause
April 30-May 3 2020
Melbourne, Australia
