Call for papers - Menopause – a poorly understood stage of life

Guest Editors:
Kath Peters: Western Sydney University, Australia
Hedyeh Riazi: Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Iran

Submission Status: Open | Submission Deadline: 11 June 2024

BMC Women’s Health is calling for submissions to our Collection on Menopause - a poorly understood stage of life.

This Collection seeks to address the knowledge gap in our understanding of menopause and its profound impact on women’s health and overall well-being. Menopause, a natural phase in a woman's life, remains a topic many women and even healthcare providers know little about, despite its significance. A better understanding of this important period is needed in order to support women during the menopause transition. Through this collection, we aim to bring together research exploring menopause and its multifaceted effects on women's physical, mental, sexual, and emotional well-being.

New Content Item This collection supports and amplifies research related to SDG 3: Good Health and Well-Being, SDG 5: Gender Equality.

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Meet the Guest Editors

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Kath Peters: Western Sydney University, Australia

Professor Kath Peters is the Associate Dean (International and Engagement) in the School of Nursing and Midwifery at Western Sydney University. She has successfully led multiple funded and unfunded research projects to completion, ensuring research outcomes with over 150 publications in peer-reviewed journals. She has expertise in all aspects of qualitative research with a particular interest in feminist methodology. Her research encompasses marginalized populations and women’s sexual and reproductive health across the lifespan.

Hedyeh Riazi: Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Iran

Dr Riazi is employed at Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, holding the title of Associate Professor in the Department of Midwifery and Reproductive Health. She graduated with a Ph.D from the medical school of Tarbiat Modares University in Tehran. Dr Riazi’s research activity is focused on women’s sexual and reproductive health, and she supervised many PhD and MS dissertations and also published several papers and books in this field. She is an editorial board member of BMC Women’s Health, Associate Editor of Advances in Nursing & Midwifery, and Editorial board member of Payesh Journal.

About the Collection

BMC Women’s Health is calling for submissions to our Collection on Menopause - a poorly understood stage of life. This Collection seeks to address the knowledge gap in our understanding of menopause and its profound impact on women’s health and overall well-being.

Menopause, a natural phase in a woman's life, remains a topic many women and even healthcare providers know little about, despite its significance. A better understanding of this important period is needed in order to support women during the menopause transition. Through this collection, we aim to bring together research exploring menopause and its multifaceted effects on women's physical, mental, sexual, and emotional well-being.

We invite healthcare professionals and researchers from across fields including gynecology, endocrinology, mental health, nutrition, nursing, and others to contribute research on all aspects of menopause and women’s health during menopause. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

Menopause symptoms and symptom management
Effects of hormonal changes on women’s overall health and quality of life
Changes in all aspects of health during menopause, including mental, cardiovascular, cognitive, oral, and musculoskeletal health
Factors that affect health and well-being during menopause, including physical, psychological, and sociocultural factors
Correlation between menopause and the development or management of chronic diseases
Interventions and treatments to improve overall health and quality of life during and after menopause
Women’s experiences of menopause

This collection supports and amplifies research related to SDG 3: Good Health and Well-Being and, SDG 5: Gender Equality.

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Submission Guidelines

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This Collection welcomes submission of original Research Articles. Should you wish to submit a different article type, please read our submission guidelines to confirm that type is accepted by the journal. Articles for this Collection should be submitted via our submission system, Snapp. During the submission process you will be asked whether you are submitting to a Collection, please select "Menopause - a poorly understood stage of life" from the dropdown menu.

Articles will undergo the journal’s standard peer-review process and are subject to all of the journal’s standard policies. Articles will be added to the Collection as they are published.

The Editors have no competing interests with the submissions which they handle through the peer review process. The peer review of any submissions for which the Editors have competing interests is handled by another Editorial Board Member who has no competing interests.