AJPM Focus is the official open access journal of the American College of Preventive Medicine and the Association for Prevention Teaching and Research. The aim of this journal is to serve as the academic open access repository for high-quality prevention evidence across the global spectrum of health. The journal’s scope spans all aspects of public health and preventive medicine practice, teaching, and research, including:

• Community medicine

• Community health

• Global health

• Policy development

• Health promotion

• Disease prevention

• Population medicine

• Population health

• Health systems and services delivery

• Clinical preventive medicine

• Integrative medicine and lifestyle medicine

Original papers, reviews, and editorials based on quantitative, qualitative, or mixed methodologies, including all experimental and observational designs, are welcomed. The journal also encourages the submission of other scholarly articles such as case studies; articles that report pilot data analyses and preliminary results; studies with null or negative results; replication studies; primary or secondary research protocols; program evaluations, quality improvement findings, and policy analyses; and implementation, translation, and synthesis science studies.