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PATIENT EDUCATION AND COUNSELING
Patient Education and CounselingOfficial journal of EACH, the European Association for Communication in Healthcare and AACH, the American Academy on Communication in Healthcare

Editor-in-Chief
A. Finset
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Description
Patient Education and Counseling is an interdisciplinary, international journal for patient education and health promotion researchers, managers, physicians, nurses and other health care providers. The journal seeks to explore and elucidate educational, counseling and communication models in health care. Its aim is to provide a forum for fundamental as well as applied research, and to promote the study of the delivery of patient education, counseling, and health promotion services, including training models and organizational issues in improving communication between providers and patients.

The journal welcomes unsolicited manuscripts related to the field of patient education, counseling, clinical health promotion and communication in health care.

Electronic usage:

An increasing number of readers access the journal online via ScienceDirect, one of the world's most advanced web delivery systems for scientific, technical and medical information.

Average monthly article downloads for this journal: 29,323*
* Figure is an average based on full text articles downloaded monthly via ScienceDirect between August 2006 and August 2007.

Bibliographic & ordering information
ISSN: 0738-3991
Imprint: ELSEVIER
Commenced publication 1979

Subscriptions for the year 2009, Volumes 74-78, 15 issues

Institutional online access: ScienceDirect eSelect
For purchase of online access to this journal on ScienceDirect.

Institutional price: Order form
EUR 2,018 for European countries and Iran
JPY 267,600 for Japan
USD 2,256 for all countries except Europe, Japan and Iran

Personal price: Order form
EUR 219 for European countries and Iran
USD 243 for all countries except Europe, Japan and Iran
JPY 28,700 for Japan

Personal price UK: Order form
GBP 153


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For an overview of recently-dispatched issues, see the Journal issue dispatch dates

Audience
Patient Education Researchers, Managers and Counselors, Health Educators and Health Care Providers, Psychologists and Sociologists, concerned with information, education and counseling of patients.

Impact factor of this journal
2007: 1.792
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