Need for Hispanic Editors & Content in Medical Journals

Richard (Sal) Salcido, M.D., Ed.D.

The Erdman Professor Of PM&R University of Pennsylvania.

Editor In Chief of Advances In Skin And Wound Care; LWW

Distinguished Panel

• Jennifer Campi, Senior Staff Editor, Academic Medicine,

Washington, DC

• Vicki Cohn, Executive Vice President & Managing Editor,

Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., Publishers, New Rochelle, NY

• Edward Livingston, MD, Deputy Editor, Journal of the

American Medical Association, Chicago, IL

• Antonia M. Villarruel, PhD, FAAN, Associate Dean for

Research and Global Affairs, University of Michigan School

of Nursing, Ann Arbor, MI

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Goals of the Discussion• Discuss the need for specific Hispanic Health content in Biomedical

Journals

– Increase Hispanic authors in medical journals and content

• Examine the reasons for publication disparities in relationship to the

need for more patient oriented research and clinically applied

information for the Hispanic population

• Draw inspiration from the PANEL – thought and content leaders in

the biomedical publication space

• Introduce conceptualization, feasibility and implementation of a

new interprofessional Journal: The Journal of the National Hispanic

Medical Association

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Current Conditions: Environmental Scan

• Editorial Venues

– NLM

– PUB Central

– Google Scholar

• Demographics

• Content providers

– Public Health

• Lifestyle redesign

– Patient safety

• CLAS Standards

– Patient Oriented Research: Qualitative/Quantitative

– Compositional and cognitive diversity

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Boyer’s Principles of Scholarship

• Scholarship of discovery

– Pursuing inquiry and investigation to create new knowledge;

• Scholarship of integration (INTERPROFESSIONAL)

– Making connections across disciplines and advancing knowledge through synthesis;

• Scholarship of application

– Applying knowledge in a dynamic process to address complex issues;

• Scholarship of teaching, transmitting, transforming,

– Extending knowledge through peer-reviewed communication and education;

• Scholarship of engagement,

– by connecting the dimensions listed above to solve pressing issues.

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Publication Disparities

• Hispanic health care international: the official journal of the National Association of

Hispanic Nurses. Publisher: New York, NY : Springer Pub. http

://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/springer/hhci

• Journal of Hispanic higher education, Inc., 2002-: American Association of Hispanics

in Higher Education. Electronic Links: http://jhh.sagepub.com/.

• Hispanic journal of behavioral sciences. Publisher Los Angeles: Spanish Speaking

Mental Health Research Center University of California, Los Angeles, [c1979] Articles

in English and Spanish.  

• Hispanic physician : official publication of the California Hispanic American Medical

Association. Vol. 1, no. 1 (May 1989)- Ceased with: Vol. 5, 1995?. Publisher Arcadia,

CA : The Association, [1989-1995]

• Journal of general internal medicine (Supliment) Rodríguez, Michael A., and William A.

Vega. "Confronting inequities in Latino health care." 24 (2009): 505-507.

Demographic • According to U.S. Census Bureau and population estimates as of July 1, 2011:

– 52.0 million Hispanics live in the U.S., representing approximately 16.7% of the U.S.

total population, making people of Hispanic origin the nation's largest ethnic or race

minority.

• The U.S. Hispanic population for July 1, 2050 is estimated to reach 132.8

million, constituting approximately 30% of the U.S. population by that date.

• Among Hispanic subgroups, in 2010, – Mexicans ranked as the largest at 63%, Puerto Ricans (9.2%), Cubans (3.5%), 

Salvadorans (3.3%),Dominicans (2.8%), and the remaining 18.2% were people of other Hispanic or Latino origins.

• Selig Center’s Multicultural Economy report (2012). “The $1.2 trillion Hispanic market is larger than the entire economies of all but 13 countries in the world.”

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Inter-Professional Focus

• Nursing• MD, PA • Occupational Therapy• Physical Therapy • Pharmacy• Health Services Research• Public Health• Exercise Sciences• Nutrition• Social Sciences• Education, Anthropology