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Instructions to Authors Journal of International Health (This is for the authors who would like to submit an article written in English. For those who submit an article in Japanese, read Japanese-version of ‘Instructions to Authors’.) Journal of International Health is the quarterly official journal of the Japan Association for International Health. A key objective is to share information, learn what others learned, and discuss future challenges in research, intervention, field practice, education, management, and policy making in International Health, which promotes members’ activities and further addresses international health issues. While this journal pursues high quality articles in terms of science and art, with comprehensive and multidisciplinary aspects of international health the journal encourages members with various expertise and professions ranging from policy-making to field practice to submit articles from diverse perspectives such as politics, socio-economics and culture. Therefore, an article should be prepared in such a way to make field practitioners and other specialists understand. Authors should prepare and submit manuscripts based on the following instructions. Refer to ‘Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals’ issued by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors （/　　Accessed November 21, 2004） for those not included in the instructions. Eligibility: The first author should be the member of the Japan Association for International Health. Those who do not hold the membership of the Association ought to make an application for admission concurrently with the manuscript submission. Journal of International Health does not accept the manuscript that has been published or will be published elsewhere. Research Ethics: All researches involving either human participants or materials of human origin should proceed in accordance with the principles in the Declaration of Helsinki of 1975, which was embodied b