Center for the Study of Equity and Governance in Health Systems, CEGSS, Guatemala City, Guatemala.
Center for International Health, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.
Int J Equity Health. 2017 Feb 21;16(1):35. doi: 10.1186/s12939-017-0531-0.
Since our launch in 2002, the International Journal for Equity in Health (IJEqH) has furthered our collective understanding of equity in health and health services by providing a platform on which academics and practitioners can share their work. Today, we celebrate our fifteenth anniversary with an article collection that presents a call for new and novel research in equity in health and we invite our authors to use new approaches and methods, and to focus on emerging areas of research related to health equity in order to set the stage for the next fifteen years of health equity research.Our anniversary issue provides a platform for expanding the conceptualization, diversity of populations and study designs, and for increasing the use of novel methodologies in the field. The IJEqH has helped to support the wider group of researchers, policymakers and practitioners with a commitment to social justice and equity but there is still more to do. With the help of the highly committed editorial team and editorial board, the innovative work of researchers worldwide, and the countless of hours dedicated by hundreds of reviewers, we are confident in the IJEqH's ability to continue supporting the dissemination of health equity research for years to come.
自 2002 年创刊以来，《国际卫生公平杂志》（IJEqH）通过为学者和实践者分享工作成果提供了一个平台，进一步增进了我们对卫生和卫生服务公平性的集体理解。今天，我们庆祝创刊十五周年，推出了一系列文章，呼吁在卫生公平性研究方面开展新的、新颖的研究，并邀请我们的作者采用新的方法和手段，关注与卫生公平相关的新兴研究领域，为未来十五年的卫生公平研究奠定基础。
本刊周年纪念特刊为拓展概念、增加研究人群多样性和设计多样性以及增加该领域新方法的使用提供了一个平台。IJEqH 一直致力于支持更广泛的、致力于社会正义和公平的研究人员、政策制定者和实践者，但仍有许多工作要做。在高度敬业的编辑团队和编委会的帮助下，在世界各地研究人员的创新工作以及数百名评审员无私奉献的无数个小时的努力下，我们有信心 IJEqH 将能够继续支持未来多年的卫生公平研究传播。
