Patient Education and Counseling is an interdisciplinary, international journal for patient education and health promotion researchers,
managers, physicians, nurses and other health care providers. The journal seeks to explore and elucidate educational, counseling and
communication models in health care. Its aim is to provide a forum for fundamental as well as applied research, and to promote the study
of the delivery of patient education, counseling, and health promotion services, including training models and organizational issues
in improving communication between providers and patients.
The journal welcomes unsolicited manuscripts related to the field of patient
education, counseling, clinical health promotion and communication in health care.
Electronic usage:
An increasing number of readers access the journal online via ScienceDirect, one of the
world's most advanced web delivery systems for scientific, technical and medical information.
Average monthly article downloads for
this journal: 42,615* * Figure is an average based on full text articles downloaded monthly via ScienceDirect between
August 2008 and March 2009
