About the Journal | ABCS Health Sciences

Focus and Scope

ABCS Health Sciences is an inter- and multidisciplinary scientific journal, refereed and open to contributions from the international scientific community. Its mission is to publish and disseminate relevant contributions of interest in the Health Sciences.

Peer Review Process

All manuscripts received (in Portuguese or English) undergo peer review. The Editorial Board chooses external experts (reviewers) to issue anonymous opinion on the manuscript. These opinions are sent to the authors, along with the editors´ comments. If there is a possibility of publication, the authors should review the manuscript considering the suggestions and corrections or present reasons for non-compliance. The manuscripts will be approved for publication only after the final evaluation by reviewers and approval by the Editorial Board.

Authors may be asked to rectify formatting issues in text before the manuscript is sent for analysis by reviewers.

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that freely available scientific knowledge to the public supports a greater global democratization of knowledge.

Article Processing Charges

This journal does not charge the authors any fee related to submission and processing of manuscripts.

Authors who wish to publish a second version of the article in another language should be responsible for the additional costs involved.

Ethical Considerations

ABCS Health Sciences follows the ethical conduct and guidelines of the document Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals (available in www.icmje.org) for publication of scientific articles. In addition, it is required that all the ethical criteria for research on humans or animals must be respected. Therefore, the authors should state in "Methods" or in "Case Report" sections that the research was conducted within the standards from the Declaration of Helsinki and approved by a Research Ethics Committee.

Anti-Plagiarism Police

All manuscripts received are screened by anti-plagiarism software iThenticate. Manuscripts presenting high text similarity will be rejected.

Sources of Support

Journal History

The journal was created in 1978 by students of the Faculdade de Medicina do ABC (FMABC) originally entitled Arquivos Médicos do ABC (ISSN 0100-3992). In the first two years Diretório Acadêmico Nylceu Marques de Castro was responsible for the publication. After 1980 the responsability was shared with the Associação dos Docentes da FMABC.

In 1997 faculty members from FMABC created the nonprofit association NEPAS (Núcleo de Estudos, Pesquisa e Assessoria à Saúde) to, among other purposes, ensure continued publication of the journal.

Two major structural transformations updated editorial guidelines of the journal, including content and scope:

- In 2008, the journal was renamed Arquivos Brasileiros de Ciências da Saúde (ISSN 1983-2451);

- In 2013, the journal was renamed ABCS Health Sciences (ISSN 2318-4965).

Editors
1978-1979	Diretório Acadêmico Nylceu Marques de Castro
1980-1996	Diretório Acadêmico Nylceu Marques de Castro e Associação dos Docentes da FMABC
1997-2004	Gérson Vilhena Pereira Filho
2004-present	Ricardo Peres do Souto

Editorial Board
1997-2007	Gérson Vilhena Pereira Filho	FMABC – Santo André – SP - Brazil
1998-2002	Milton Borreli	FMABC – Santo André – SP - Brazil
1998-2001	Maria Lúcia Tomanik Packer	FMABC – Santo André – SP – Brazil
1998-2001	Vânia Barbosa do Nascimento	FMABC – Santo André – SP – Brazil
2002-2004	Luis Henrique Camargo Paschoal	FMABC – Santo André – SP – Brazil
2002-2004	José Ricardo Carvalho Lima Rehder	FMABC – Santo André – SP – Brazil
2003-	Ricardo Peres do Souto	FMABC – Santo André – SP – Brazil
2005-2010	Lourdes Conceição Martins	FMABC – Santo André – SP – Brazil
2005-2009	Olinda do Carmo Luiz	FMABC – Santo André – SP – Brazil
2005-2012	Sandra Terezinha Amarante	FMABC – Santo André – SP – Brazil
2008-2016	Luiz Carlos de Abreu	FMABC – Santo André – SP – Brazil
2012-	Fernando Adami	FMABC – Santo André – SP – Brazil
2012-	Guilherme Malafaia Pinto	IFGoiano – Urutaí – GO – Brazil
2012-	Márcia de Toledo Blake	UFPA – Soure – PA – Brazil
2012-	Vítor Engrácia Valenti	UNESP – Marília – SP - Brazil
2013-	Francisco de Assis Guedes de Vasconcelos	UFSC – Florianópolis – SC - Brazil

Scientific Counsel
Ana Luiza Muccillo Baisch	Rio Grande/RS
Antonio Carlos Lima Pompeo	Santo André/SP
Abraão Rapoport	São Paulo/SP
Alexandre Francisco de Lourenço	São Paulo/SP
Arthur Guerra de Andrade	Santo André/SP
Augusto Paranhos Jr.	São Paulo/SP
Auro Del Giglio	Santo André/SP
Bráulio Luna Filho	São Paulo/SP
Carlo Milani	São Paulo/SP
Celso Ferreira	São Paulo/SP
César Eduardo Fernandes	Santo André/SP
Eduardo Colombari	Araraquara/SP
Fernando Augusto de Almeida	São Paulo/SP
Flávio Adolfo Costa Vaz	São Paulo/SP
Gilles Landman	São Paulo/SP
Helena Bonciani Nader	São Paulo/SP
Hugo Spinelli	Lanús, Argentina
Jair Constante Soares	Houston, EUA
João Guilherme Bezerra Alves	Recife/PE
José Albuquerque de Figueiredo Neto	São Luiz/MA
José Lúcio Martins Machado	Botucatu/SP
Josepa Rigau	Tarragona, Espanha
Júlia Maria de Souza Felippe	São Paulo/SP
Lucimar Aparecida B. N. Sampaio	São Paulo/SP
Luisa Lina Villa	São Paulo/SP
Luiz Carlos Von Bahten	Curitiba/PR
Marcelo Eduardo Pfeiffer Castellanos	Salvador/BA
Marco Akerman	São Paulo/SP
Marcus Vinícius Sadi	São Paulo/SP
Maria Aparecida da Silva Pinhal	Santo André/SP
Maria Belén Salazar Posso	São José dos Campos/SP
Maria do Carmo Borges Teixeira	Maceió/AL
Maria das Graças Vale Barbosa	Manaus/AM
Maria Helena Palucci Marziale	Ribeirão Preto/SP
Maria Salete Bessa Jorge	Fortaleza/CE
Mário José Abdala Saad	Campinas/SP
Nise Hitomi Yamaguchi	São Paulo/SP
Noe Zamel	Toronto, Canadá
Octávio Fernandes	Rio de Janeiro/RJ
Orlando César de Oliveira Barretto	São Paulo/SP
Paulo de Oliveira Gomes	São Paulo/SP
Ralf Greiner	Karlsruhe, Alemanha
Ricardo Luiz Smith	São Paulo/SP
Ricardo Oliveira Guerra	Natal/RN
Richard Louis Voegels	São Paulo/SP
Schlioma Zaterka	São Paulo/SP
Szulim Ber Zyngier	São Paulo/SP
Tânia Maria de Araújo	Feira de Santana/BA
Waldir Eduardo Garcia	Londrina/PR
Wellington V. Cardoso	New York, EUA
Wilson Roberto Catapani	Santo André/SP