About the Journal
Focus and Scope
Collaborative Health Conference on Research, Practice, and Community Innovations
This collaborative health conference is part of Dalhousie University‘s 200th anniversary celebrations.
The Healthy Living Healthy Life 2018 (HLHL 2018) conference is focused on interprofessional, collaborative, and multi-stakeholder engagement. Presentations, e-posters, panels, and workshops will explore evidence and new innovations that transform and create capacity for healthy living across the life span. We encourage people working with individuals, organizations, and populations to submit abstracts.
Who will attend HLHL 2018?
Community groups and multi-stakeholder partnerships
Health professionals and clinicians
Non-governmental, not for profit, and business members interested in health
Members of the public interested in healthy living across the life span
Policy and decision makers
Researchers
Undergraduate and graduate students, and post-doctoral fellows
Peer Review Process
The HLHL 2018 Scientific Committee along with additional peer reviewers will review abstract submissions using the criteria below. Our conference review committee is committed to developing a conference program that is balanced across the themes and to the support of the overall conference theme of healthy living across the life span. Each abstract will be evaluatedby two reviewers. Abstracts receiving conflicting reviews will receive further review. Author‘s identities will remain unknown to the reviewers and to the Scientific Program Committee. The decision of the Scientific Program Committee is final. Notification of acceptance or non-acceptance of abstracts will be emailed in March 2018.
Abstracts will be evaluated on the following criteria:
1. Quality of the Presentation Content
There is substantial information that is appropriate to the theme.
For research, results can include projected or preliminary data, if data are not yet compiled. For extended sessions, method of facilitating the interactive component of the session is clearly described.
2. Educational Value
Interest and appeal to a wide audience (e.g., needs to be heard, has potential to transform health).
Important contribution to practice, research, policy, theory, or community-based knowledge.
Novel or innovative contribution (e.g., current trends or new ideas, relevant to the theme of the conference).
3. Quality of Written Abstract
Self-contained (i.e., should not include abbreviations, acronyms, quotes or more than 5 citations) and concise(i.e., each sentence is maximally informative, especially the lead sentence).
Coherent and readable (i.e., written in a logical sequence, use of clear vigorous prose , avoids use of personal pronouns).
Open Access Policy
This conference proceedings provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.
Formats for Submissions
All abstracts must be submitted to the HLHL 2018 website by February 14, 2018 (Scientific Community), February 28, 2018 (Community Groups). Late abstracts will not be accepted. The primary author on each abstract will receive notification via email regarding the status of their submission by March, 2018.
Formats
Oral Presentation (25 minutes)
Oral presentations will be sessions in which scientific, theoretical, and interprofessional issues in education, practice, or community information are exchanged. A presentation will be allotted 20 minutes for presentation and 5 minutes for questions. The total length of the session is 25 minutes.
Similarly-themed presentations may be grouped by the Scientific Committee into a panel presentation. Each panel would consist of three individual presentations (15 minutes each) followed by a 40 minute question and answer period. This option may be offered to accepted abstracts within similar content areas. There will only be a few panels offered during the conference. Please indicate if you wish to have your abstract considered for this presentation format.
Poster Presentation (60 minutes for paper or 20 minutes for e-poster)
A poster presentation is a visual display session in one of two formats: paper or e-poster. Topics may include scientific, theoretical, interprofessional issues in education or practice, innovative approaches, project evaluations, and community-based practice.
The e-poster presenter will be expected to prepare a brief overview of their poster presentation and be available for questions and discussion for 20 minutes. E-Poster presentations will be a unique opportunity for the conference and will include an electronic platform for the posters to be presented. Posters will be electronically presented on a large LED monitor and is manipulated from an iPad. Please indicate if you wish to have your abstract considered for this presentation format.
Seminar or Workshop (30-90 minutes)
An individual or a team may lead a 30-90-minute forum on a research topic, pedagogical approach, or community-based innovation/project on healthy living across the life course or span?. The session should include a short evocative presentation leading to a dynamic exchange of ideas among participants about how to make our communities healthier. Abstracts must include a description of how the session will be facilitated.
What to consider in your abstract submission.
All abstracts must include a title and should present a clear and accurate overview of the topic. Abstracts must be typed in one, single-spaced paragraph only. Abstracts are limited to the maximum length of 400 words (not including 5 references and headings). The title of the abstract is limited to 10 words.
The following five (5) headings must be used:
Research Presentations
Introduction
Objectives
Methods
Results
Conclusion
Non-Research Presentations
Introduction/Background
Purpose
Approach or Action
Outcomes
Conclusion
If you do not use the five headings, your abstract will not be considered.
Yoursubmission should also include a separate brief summary (50 words) that will be used to describe your presentation to conference delegates. It will be published in an on-site Conference Program.
For research papers, results can include preliminary results. For seminar/workshops, the approach to the facilitation of the interactive component of the session must be included in the conclusion section of the abstract.
