Interface – Comunicação, Saúde, Educação is an open, interdisciplinary, on-line journal published by Unesp (Health Education and Communication Laboratory – Public Health Department, School of Medicine of Botucatu).It focuses on Education and Communication in health practices, education of health professionals (both university-based and in-service education) and Collective Health in its articulation with Philosophy, Arts and the Social and Human Sciences. Critical and innovative approaches are prioritized and qualitative research is emphasized.
The Journal was launched in August 1997 with the aim of stimulating debate and disseminating knowledge about the contemporary issues that challenge the field of Health and its articulation with Communication and Education.
Interface is a publication with international dissemination. It has been receiving an increasing number of contributions from authors in different countries, mainly Portugal, Spain, Latin American and Caribbean countries.
The Journal has rigorously maintained its periodicity without delays since its creation, in 1997, as a biannual journal. From 2004 to 2007 it was published three times per year and, in 2008, it became a quarterly journal. Currently Interface adopts the continuous publication of its articles, with a DOI number, in a single volume per year, in an uninterrupted manner. In the electronic Summary of the journal, in SciELO and in its website, only the section to which the article was submitted is indicated.
Interface follows the principles of ethics in scientific publications that are contained in the code of conduct of the Committee on Publication Ethics.
The Journal’s abbreviated title is Interface (Botucatu). This title must be used in bibliographies, footnotes, captions and references.
