Basic information
Epidemiology and Health Services: Journal of the Brazilian National Health system (Epidemiologia e Serviços de Saúde: revista do SUS - RESS) is an on-line, open-access, free of charge, rolling volume scientific periodical, published by the General Coordination for the Development of Epidemiology in Health Services, located within the Department of Strategic in Health Secretary of Health and Environment Surveillance of the Ministry of Health, Brazilian Ministry of Health (CGDEP/DAEVS/SVSA/MS). RESS is governed by Ordinance No. 14, dated August 13th 2015, and by its Charter, drawn up by its Editorial Core Group and its Editorial Committee, which are available to provide any further information that may be necessary. The Journal’s abbreviated title is Epidemiol. Serv. Saúde, which should be used in bibliographies, footnotes, bibliographic references and legends. |
Mission
RESS’ mission is to disseminate epidemiological knowledge applicable to surveillance, prevention and control of diseases and health conditions of public health interest, with the aim of improving the services offered by the Brazilian National Health System (Sistema Único de Saúde - SUS). |
Background
RESS is the continuation of the former SUS Epidemiological Report (Informe Epidemiológico do SUS - IESUS), created in 1992, following the setting up of the National Epidemiology Center (Centro Nacional de Epidemiologia - CENEPI). When the Health Ministry created its Health Surveillance Secretariat (SVS/MS). In 2003, the Journal changed its name to Epidemiology and Health Services (RESS), with effect from volume 12, number 1. |
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Intellectual Property
Published articles are the sole responsibility of their authors and do not necessarily express the position of the Brazilian Ministry of Health. Content published by RESS is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-type license (CC-BY), under which others are allowed to distribute, remix, adapt and build upon published work, even for commercial purposes, as long as due authorship credit is given. |
Storage
The RESS, as part of the SciELO Brasil and SciELO Saúde Pública Collections, counts on digital preservation through the Cariniana Network, created by the Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia (Ibict/MCTI) and which operates with a digital preservation system based on the distributed networking model, with storage using the LOCKSS open source system created by Stanford University. RESS issues published prior to indexation in the SciELO Collections are also digitally preserved, with the support of the Instituto Evandro Chagas (IEC). |
Dissemination
The RESS disseminates its content through its website (https://ress.iec.gov.br/p/home). Authors are informed when their article has been published and they are encouraged to disseminate its contents in their personal and institutional networks. The RESS Informa Newsletter is published fortnightly by the journal and disseminated via its mailing list. Each full issue of the journal is also disseminated via the mailing list. RESS’ associate editors publish a monthly press release of recent journal publications on the SciELO em Perspectiva Blog. The RESS encourages participation of members of its Editorial Core Group in scientific events to promote its contents, and is also a partner journal of Agência Bori, which disseminates scientific content to the press. |
Supporting institution
Secretary of Health and Environment Surveillance, Brazilian Ministry of Health (SVSA/MS) |
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Ethics
Research integrity RESS follows the guidance provided in the document entitled “Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals”, issued by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) – available from english and from portuguese. RESS has adopted the principles of publication ethics contained in the Code of Conduct of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Practices in contravention of scientific integrity, such as plagiarism, self-plagiarism, data fabrication, redundant publication and undisclosed conflicts of interest, among other practices involving misconduct, will be evaluated by members of the Editorial Core Group and the Editorial Committee, who are independent in relation to the editorial process of the manuscript in question, according to the COPE flowcharts and other COPE recommendations, which will immediately communicate the authors as to its decision and all the steps of this process. RESS uses the iThenticate system for identifying plagiarism RESS has a Statement on Publication Ethics which expresses its commitment to ethics by adopting best scientific publication practices. Ethics in research involving human beings Observance of ethical precepts in the conduct and publication of research results is the sole responsibility of the authors, and the ethical recommendations contained in the Declaration of Helsinki must be respected. In the case of research with human beings in Brazil, authors must fully comply with the norms contained in the corresponding National Health Council Resolutions. Whenever pertinent, the protocol number and the date of approval by the Research Ethics Committee should be informed. In the case of a clinical trial, the identification number of one of the clinical trial registries validated by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the ICMJE will be required. Conflicts of interest Conflicts of interest are situations in which there are interests – apparent or not – capable of influencing the process of manuscript preparation and review. They are conflicts of a diverse nature – personal, commercial, political, academic or financial – to which any person may be subject. Authors must acknowledge and disclose such interests, when they exist, by means of a Statement of Responsibility, which must be signed by all authors during manuscript submission, and the ICMJE disclosure form. The conflict of interest statement will be published in the manuscript if it is approved.
Ad hoc reviewers involved in the editorial processing must declare, in their manuscript review report, whether they have any conflicts of interest. The main reviewer conflicts of interest are: Editors and members of the Editorial Committee have submitted a disclosure of conflicts of interest. As a means of ensuring the editorial independence of the journal from its funding institution, the decision on approval of manuscripts for publication is made by the Editorial Committee and the decision on rejection of manuscripts that are being processed is validated by at least two members of the Editorial Core Group. Authorship responsibility Authors must declare that they are responsible for the veracity and uniqueness of their work by signing a Statement of Responsibility. Authorship criteria must comply with the ICMJE/ Vancouver Style deliberations, which recognize as authorship criteria substantial contributions to the following four activities: (i) study concept or design, or data collection, analysis and interpretation; (ii) drafting or relevant critical review of the intellectual content of the manuscript; (iii) final approval of the version to be published; and (iv) responsibility for all aspects of the work, including ensuring its accuracy and completeness. All those designated as authors must meet the four authorship criteria. Right to reproduce Content published by RESS is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-type license (CC-BY), under which others are allowed to distribute, remix, adapt and build upon published work, even for commercial purposes, as long as due authorship credit is given. Open science and data sharing RESS is aligned with the principles of open science. Manuscripts previously published on non-commercial preprint servers are welcomed, such as SciELO Preprints, bioRxiv and medRxiv, provided they have not been simultaneously submitted to another journal for peer review. The submitting author should inform RESS regarding preprint deposition by completing the Open Science Conformity Form, which should be submitted as a supplementary file together with the manuscript. RESS currently adopts the double-blind peer review model. In line with the progressive transparency of the manuscript review process, the name of the associate editor involved in the editorial process is included in the published manuscript. Access to the study databases may be requested at any stage of the editorial process. RESS encourages deposition and sharing of research data supporting the publication of the manuscript in public data repositories, such as the SciELO Data repository. For detailed instructions on data deposition, click here. RESS also encourages deposition and sharing of statistical software programming routines used in data analysis, in the form of supplementary materials. Sex and gender equity Manuscripts submitted to RESS should observe the principles of the Sex and Gender Equity in Research (Sex and Gender Equity in Research - SAGER) Guidelines. According to these Guidelines, the terms sex (biological attribute) and gender (shaped by social and cultural circumstances) should be used with care, so as to avoid confusion in their use. |
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