Journal of Medical Safety (JMS)

 

(Print version)ISSN 1349-5232
(Online version)ISSN 1349-5240

 

 Last update March 13, 2008

 

 

 

Official Journal of Original Manuscripts in

Union of Risk Management for Preventive Medicine (URMPM)

www.urmpm.org

 

By URMPM Publisher

 

 

 

 

(Note) This page is information of the journal guideline, only.

All Special Edition will be released unperiodically for short and rapid paper publications by electronic version. Other Editions are printed before distribution to the world.

 

 

Vol.2 (1) March 2008.

Vol.1 (2) October 2005.

Vol.1 (1) June 2005.

Vol.1 (1) Special Edition (2) October 2004

Short Papers and Abstracts of URMPM Special Conference in Costa Rica. 

Vol.1 (1) Special Edition (1) December 2003.

Abstracts of URMPM 1st World Congress in Tokyo, and SARS e-Conference.

 

 

 

 

 

Purposes and Scope: Journal of Medical Safety (JMS) is an official English journal for Union of Risk Management for Preventive Medicine (URMPM). The journal welcomes any manuscripts around the world, while the first author of each manuscript should be the registered member of URMPM. The purpose of this publication is to distribute original articles, short communications and review articles on risk management and preventive medicine. Appropriate topics include, but not limited to, problems related to global environment issues, life-style disease, community health, occupational health, medical accidents, food product health, international health, mental health and health issues for aging population. an All manuscripts are registered into a worldwide database of medical journals, 'MEDLINE' and so on.

This print version journal will be distributed to the registered members of URMPM 2 times every year and the e-version journal will be published at any time. You should use e-mail for rapid communication with the editorial office concerning submission of your manuscripts. Each copy contains information for URMPM members (i.e., Committees' Announcement, Meeting Summary, Information of Conference, Free Basic Textbook, Library, Information of Patient Safety, Drug Safety, Food Safety, Chemicals Safety, Environment Safety, Occupational Safety, and Available Position)

This journal is a sister journal of URMPM official journal 'Health', of which purpose is to distribute the leading review articles in medical sciences and several leading original articles. Thus, we hope this journal is also effective to promote the worldwide scientific activities in risk management and safety medicine, in addition to URMPM official review journal 'Health'.

 

Editorial Board

Advisory Editors by alphabetical order.

Nicholas Mascie-Taylor (The University of Cambridge, Churchill College, Cambridge, UK)

Kazuo Yamamoto (The University of Tokyo, Environmental Science Center, Tokyo, Japan)

 

 

Editor in Chief

Ryoji Sakai (World health Risk Management Center, etc.)

 

 

Vice-Editor in Chief

Kjell Andersson (Karita Research, Sweden)

Bruno Gottestein (University of Berne, Faculty of Medicine, Berne)

Vyacheslav K. Ilyin (Russian Acadey of Science, RF State Scientific Cent. Inst. Biomed. Problems, Moscow)

 

 

Editorial board


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(Canada)

Nathalie de Marcellis-Warin (Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Montreal)

 

(Costa Rica)

Alcira Castillo (The University of Costa Rica, School of Public Health, San Jose)

 

(Hong Kong)

Phillip Beh (The University of Hong Kong, Forensic Pathology)

 

(Korea)

Joon Pil Cho (Ajou University Hospital, Emergency Medicine, Suwon)

Yoon Shin Kim (Hanyang University, College of Medicine, Seoul)

 

(Japan)

Toru Hijikata (Seitoku University, Saitama)

Toru Inoue (National Institute of Health Sciences, Tokyo)

Naoyasu Motomura (Osaka Kyouiku University, Osaka)

Atsuo Murata (Kyorin University, Tokyo)

Yushi Okazaki (Mie University, Medical School, Mie)

Hedihiko Tamaki (The University of Hokkaido, Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido)

Shigeyuki Tsunemari (Kumamto University, Forensic Medicine, Kumamoto)

Chiho Watanabe (The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo)

 

(Malaysia)

Ab Aziz al-Safi bin Ismail (University Sains Malaysia, School of Medicine, Kelantan)

Rusli B. Nordin (University Sains Malaysia, Kelantan)

 

(Philippine)

Irma R. Makalino (University pf the Philippines College of Medicine)

 

(Russia)

Alexander Deev (National Research Center for Preventive Medicine, Moscow)

Galina Kh. Merzhanova (Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of the Higher Neural Activity, Moscow)

Elena Ryabchikova (State Research Center of Virology and Biotechnology "Vector", Novosibirsk)

Vladislav N. Solntsev(University of St. Petersburg, Institute of Mathematics and Mechanics, St. Petersburg)

Vladmir V. Tkachov (Russsian Academy of Medical Sciences, Institute of Occupational Health, Moscow)

 

(Singapore)

Gilbert Lau (Singapore Government, Department of Health)

 

(South Africa)

B.L. Meel, (University of Transkei)

 

(Switzerland)

 

(Thailand)

Orapun Metadilogkul (Occup. and Env. Medicine Association of Thailand, Bangkok)

 

(Tunisia)

Zourgui Lazhar (Fac des sciences de Gafsa, Universit de Sfax pour le Sud)

 

(UK)

Simon Cohn (University of London, Goldsmiths College, London)

Louella L. Matsunaga (Oxford Brookes University, Oxford)

Iqbal M. Mujtaba (University of Bradford, West Yorkshire)

 

(Ukraine)

G. Kremenchuts ?yy (Dniepropetrovsk State Medical Academy, Dniepropetrovsk)

Alexander Pivovarov (Ukrainian State Chemical-Technology University)

 

(USA)

Neal Richard Boyd (George Washington University Medical Center, Washington DC)

Mike Fremont (Rivers Unlimited)

James S. Kesher (National Institute for Occupational Safety & Health, Ohio)

 


JMS Assistant Editor

Shirley V. V. Chaves (URMPM International Secretary, Costa Rica)

 

Subscription: Each copy will be distributed as a printed material and an e-version or off-line mail magazine, while the content can be also seen in URMPM homepage. The annual subscription fee is 400 USD per person, if you are not the registered members of URMPM. Those who wish to subscribe this journal should contact the Editorial Office about payment.



Instructions for authors

1.   Journal of Medical Safety (JMS) is accepting online to the Society Office secr-office@umin.ac.jp. Authors will be sent more information about how and where to send their papers after they are accepted. The entire manuscript should be contained in one file. Tables and figures may be excluded from the electronic file and presented only in the accompanying hard copies. The following word processing programs and format files are accepted: Microsoft Word and WordPerfect for Windows version, Text files, RTF form files, and PDF form files. An electronic file by other languages than English are not be accepted.

2     Manuscripts previously published are not acceptable. Submission of a manuscript to the journal implies that it has not been published elsewhere, that it does not duplicate material already published in any languages elsewhere.

3     Human studies should not be conducted in accordance with the recommendations outlined in the Declaration of Helsinki (1964, revised 1975 and 1983).

4      The following types of contributions will be published: 1) articles reporting original research; 2) short communications; 3) other articles. Review articles will be published to URMPM official journal, HEALTH, which consists of leading review articles and several original manuscripts. While, thus, all review articles should be submitted to HEALTH at first, any review article can be published by JMS till the journal, HEALTH will launch the publication in Spring of 2004. All submissions are peer-reviewed and subject to final decision of the Editorial Board.

5     If the manuscript is accepted for publication, copyright of the article shall be assigned to the Union of Risk Management for Preventive Medicine.

6     Manuscript should be prepared in the following manner:

1)     Manuscript should be written in English. Each manuscript should be sent by e-mail to the following Editorial Office. Also, one original and two copies should be submitted.

2)      The English abstract (250 words) should be attached to manuscripts.

3)      The title page of the manuscript should include name(s) of author(s), affiliated organization(s), address of representative author, type of contribution, running title (not more than 60 letters including spaces) and number of tables and figures.

4)      Manuscript should be typed in double-spacing on A4 (ca. 22x28 cm) paper.

5)      Original article should be limited to 8 printed pages including tables and figures. This would be equivalent to 20 pages of double-spaced text. Exceeded print page will be charged by 100 USD per page.

6)      Short communications and case studies should be limited to 2 printed pages including tables and figures. This would be equivalent to 5 pages of double-spaced text.

7)      Key words up to 10 words will be placed after the abstract for reviews, originals, and field studies, but only after the title of the title page for short communications and case studies.

8)      Tables and figures should be of adequate quality to withstand reduction in size. Each table and figure should be submitted on a separate A4 sheet. Their location in the text should be indicated in the margin of the text.

9)      The following units and symbols should be used for quantities and measurements: km, m, cm, mm, ㎛, nm, kg, g, mg, ㎍,; ℓ, mℓ, ㎕; yr (year), wk(week), d(day), h(hour), min(minute), s(sec) .

10)  References should be numbered according to the order in which they appear in the text and should be listed at the end of the text according to the following format. The number of the references should be indicated in the text as follows.

Examples of references

①    Papers published in Journals

Adamson J, Hunt K, Ebrahim S. Socioeconomic position, occupational exposures, and gender: the relation with locomotor disability in early old age. J Epidemiol. Community Health 2003;57: 453-455.

②    Books and other monographs

Detels R, McEwen J, Beaglehole R, Tanaka H. Oxford Textbook of Public Health. The Scope of Public Health. Fourth Edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.

③    Contributions in Books

Detels R, Breslow. Current scope and concerns in public health. In: Detels R, McEwen J, Beaglehole R, Tanaka H. Oxford Textbook of Public Health. The Scope of Public Health. Fourth Edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002: 3-20.

 

 

 

 

 

JMS Editorial Office:

c/o URMPM Head Office

URMPM Secretary, Shirley V. V. Chaves

(E-mail) secr-office@umin.net

(Tel/Fax) +81-3-3817-7010    (81 is a country code of Japan).

(Postal Address) 4-7-12-102 Hongo, Bunkyoku, Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan

 

 

 

 

 


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