Focus and Scope

Media Publikasi Promosi Kesehatan Indonesia

Journal Focus

Media Publikasi Promosi Kesehatan Indonesia (MPPKI) is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original research and review articles in health promotion, health education, health communication, community empowerment, health behaviour, and health promotion interventions.

The journal focuses on the development, implementation, and evaluation of evidence-based health promotion policies, programmes, strategies, and practices in community, healthcare, educational, occupational, industrial, tourism, and other institutional settings.

MPPKI welcomes methodologically rigorous manuscripts from Indonesia and other countries that make a clear and substantial contribution to health promotion research, policy, education, or practice.

Journal Scope

The focus and scope of MPPKI include the following areas:

Research Approaches

MPPKI accepts quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods research when the design is appropriate to the research question and the manuscript demonstrates a clear contribution to health promotion.

Relevant research approaches include:

• Cross-sectional, cohort, and case-control studies
• Randomized and nonrandomized intervention studies
• Quasi-experimental and natural-experiment designs
• Implementation research
• Health-promotion programme and policy evaluation
• Community-based participatory research
• Qualitative and mixed-methods studies
• Health communication and media evaluation
• Institutional and settings-based health-promotion research
• Systematic reviews and meta-analyses
• Scoping reviews with a clear methodological rationale

Priority Manuscripts

MPPKI gives priority to manuscripts that:

• Address a clearly defined and important health-promotion problem
• Present a meaningful scientific, educational, policy, or practical contribution
• Use an appropriate and sufficiently rigorous research design
• Evaluate health-promotion policies, programmes, strategies, communication, or interventions
• Use health-behaviour theory or an explicit conceptual framework where appropriate
• Address community empowerment, cultural relevance, health literacy, or health inequity
• Provide implications that are transferable beyond a single institution or location
• Follow the appropriate EQUATOR reporting guideline
• Comply fully with research and publication ethics

Studies Considered Only Under Specific Conditions

Clinical, biomedical, laboratory, pharmaceutical, nutritional, diagnostic, molecular, or environmental-measurement studies are considered only when they include a clear health-promotion component and make a direct contribution to at least one of the following:

• Health literacy or health education
• Health communication or risk communication
• Health behaviour or behaviour change
• Community empowerment or participation
• Disease prevention or healthy-lifestyle promotion
• Institutional or settings-based health promotion
• Implementation or evaluation of health-promotion interventions

Manuscripts Outside the Journal Scope

MPPKI generally does not consider:

• Purely clinical case reports or case series
• Clinical treatment comparisons without a health-promotion, education, communication, behaviour, or prevention component
• Laboratory, molecular, genetic, microbiological, animal, or biomarker studies without direct health-promotion relevance
• Pharmaceutical formulation, pharmacological screening, or product-development studies without a health-promotion dimension
• Food-product development, nutrient-composition, or laboratory-based food studies without a health-promotion intervention or education component
• Pure diagnostic-performance studies without health education, communication, screening behaviour, or implementation relevance
• Environmental measurements that do not assess health behaviour, risk communication, prevention, or health-promotion intervention
• Community-service or outreach reports without a defined research design and evaluative method
• Simple descriptive surveys without sufficient analytical, theoretical, educational, policy, or practical contribution
• Institutional satisfaction studies without broader health-promotion significance
• Bibliometric studies without a clearly justified contribution to health-promotion research, policy, education, or practice
• Narrative reviews without a transparent search, selection, appraisal, and synthesis method
• Manuscripts outside the stated scope, regardless of methodological quality

Geographic and International Relevance

MPPKI welcomes research from Indonesia and other countries. Studies conducted in a single locality, community, institution, healthcare facility, workplace, tourism setting, or industrial setting are eligible when the research question, design, analysis, interpretation, or implications contribute knowledge relevant beyond the immediate study setting.

The journal particularly encourages research from low- and middle-income settings, international collaborations, multicentre studies, comparative research, and studies addressing health-promotion challenges of regional or global significance.

Article Types

MPPKI considers Original Research Articles and rigorous Review Articles that comply with the journal’s methodological, ethical, and reporting requirements.

Editorial Scope Screening

Every submission undergoes an initial editorial assessment before external peer review. Editors evaluate:

• Alignment with the Focus and Scope
• Appropriateness of the selected article type
• Originality and significance of the research question
• Methodological and analytical adequacy
• Ethical and reporting compliance
• Potential contribution to health-promotion research, policy, education, communication, or practice

Manuscripts that fall outside the journal scope or do not demonstrate a sufficient contribution to health promotion may be declined without external peer review.