Italian Journal of Public Health

It is the policy of the Italian Journal of Public Health and its various boards and committees to ensure that members in all of their activities avoid conflicts of interest or the appearance of conflicts of interest resulting from their activities as members of committees or boards of the association. In particular, no persons should obtain or appear to obtain special advantages for themselves, their relatives, or their close associates as a result of their services on a board or committee.
The Italian Journal of Public Health considers very important that conflicts of interest and the appearance of conflicts of interest be avoided in the process of acceptation of the submitted papers.

• Persons who have wrote the paper should not make evaluations about their articles with the referees. For such a reason the peer review is made by double blind method.
• Persons should also abstain from evaluation of a submitted paper if they are a relative of, spouse of, or have a significant personal relationship with the members of the editorial staff.
• It is not appropriate for members of the editorial staff, peer reviewers and members of various boards and committees and award committee, for their own personal purposes, to make specific use of or publicize any confidential information which may have been reading the submitted papers. It is also not appropriate for all these persons to utilize the results of the researches described in the submitted papers without the necessary permissions. This is, however, to be distinguished from the entirely appropriate benefit obtained by referees, boards and committees who become better acquainted with collaboration Italian Journal of Public Health.
• Persons knowing that a paper of which they are the author will be submitted for peer review, should withdraw from the referees.
• Persons should withdraw from the Boards members, Editorial Staff and referees if they are a relative of, spouse of, or have a significant personal relationship with the author of any submitted paper.
• Persons who are from the same academic institution as the author of a submitted book should abstain from providing evaluations of that paper as referee.
• All submissions must include disclosure of all relationships that could be viewed as presenting a potential conflict of interest. The Editor may use such information as a basis for editorial decisions, and will publish such disclosures if they are believed to be important to readers in judging the manuscript. Failure to disclose conflicts may lead to publication of a Department of Error. The Editor may use such information as a basis for editorial decisions, and will publish such disclosures if they are believed to be important to readers in judging the manuscript.
• All sources of funding should be declared as an acknowledgment at the end of the text.