Journal Summary
The availability of water, food and medication is mainly driven by the natural environment on which
they are dependent and on which status depends the sustainability of health services. We need insight into human collection and uses of medicinal plants, foodstuffs and nutraceutical products, as well as the use pharmaceutical and provision of dietetic and health services to predict the status of the environment, relate it to health sustainability and promote the adherence and respect of key protocols in the nutrition and health systems of African countries.
Journal publication schedule
The average number of weeks it takes for an article to go through the editorial review process for this journal is seven weeks, including standard publications and desk rejects. There are five key steps:
1. Preliminary checked and assignment: From manuscript submission to the initial decision on the
article, it takes at least three days. During that period, the manuscript is submitted to
preliminary checks and adjustments prior to being assigned to two independent reviewers.
2. Peer Review: During a minimum of two weeks and three days, the reviewers verify the paper
and recommends actions for improvement of the manuscript.
3. Revisions: Upon completion of their review, the reviewers pass the manuscript to the editorial
team who will have three weeks to forward it to the authors for revisions and re-forward it to
Reviewers for their consent or rejection.
4. Final editorial decision: The editorial team decides within three days upon on the publication or
rejection of the article for takes the final decision.
5. Printing and posting: The manuscript is finally submitted for lay-out and printing prior to being
published online within three days.
Journal description
CIJ of Health-Environment Sustainability Issues (HESI) is a bilingual English-French journal dealing with issues of sustainability in the provision of food, nutrition and health services as well as ecosystem services. History of the journal: …The journal started in 2018 as a bi-annual special French Issue of Health and Environment Journal, the Basel Health College based Journal (Switzerland). This special French Issue was intended for the academic staff of the “Institut Supérieur des Techniques Médicales – Marie Reine de la Paix de Kenge (ISTM-MRP KENGE)” (DR Congo), published under the leadership of the General Manager Prof Dr. Cush Ngonzo Luwesi (PhD, MSC, MA), with the assistance of Prof Dr. John Inipavudu Baelani (PhD, MSC, MPH) and the support of two International NGOs, namely Doctors of Africa and the Foundation of Young Volunteers for Environment (FYVE). The success of the previous successive editions laid a basis for the emergence of a full-fledged journal publication under the cover of CIRMA Innovation Journals (CIJ), supervised by Prof Dr. Cush Ngonzo Luwesi (Journal Manager), Prof. Dr.
Eng. Josiane Nikiema (the Chief Editor) and Dr. Jean-Robert Ngola Monzinga (the Associate Editor).
The focus and scope of the journal:
Food is by excellence our first medicine, so are medicinal plants our second drugs, including the
kingdom of animals. All primates’ feeding behavior has both nutritional properties as well as some
dietetic and medicinal characteristics. The similarities of biochemist, physiologic and genetic processes of nutrition and dietetics among human-beings and other primates are a vast field of research that has been fully explored, from food gathering to ingestion and digestion as well as the apprehension of the trade-offs between nutrition and intoxication. Their medicinal interest is explained by unbalanced food nutrients and the presence of toxins ingested in the body. However, very little attention has been put on the environmental value of the optimal amount of food and plants being used for medicinal and nutritional purposes. Considering the emergence and hanging patterns of infectious diseases caused by protozoans and viruses, notably oronaviruses, HIV/AIDS, Ebola, Zika, malaria and other neglected tropical diseases, and given the growing resistance of vectors towards the available insecticidal molecules on the markets, the practice of hygiene and distancing in a clean environment have been propounded as remedies. But for how long would this environment remain safe? That is where sustainability comes in. It is thus urgent to seek for new ways of managing diseases with less active pharmaceutical molecules and associated toxins while monitoring the use of molecules from plants and their ecosystems, to effectively combat these emerging threats. This journal treasures the last decades results of indigenous medicines and pharmacological research on plant uses for curative medicine and prevention of diseases to propose new pathways for ensuring sustainability between health practices and environmental conservation.
In this regard, topics that are relevant to this journal includes but are not limited to:
- Updates on nutritional diseases, emerging infectious diseases and the changing patterns of protozoans and viruses: new assessments and lessons learned on combating Kwashiorkor, Konzo, Marasm, Coronaviruses, HIV/AIDS, Ebola, Zika, Influenza, malaria and other neglected tropical diseases
- Disease prevention, waste management and economic engineering: Tradeoffs between food, nutrition and health services on one end, and waste management and ecosystem services on the other; cost-benefit analysis and willingness to pay for environmental restoration, including watersheds and other ecosystems.
- Toxins control and nutraceuticals: Water, food, ethnomedicinal and pharmacological plant uses; biochemistry: swallowing toxins and plants, and their implications on gastrointestinal parasites control.
- Zoopharmacognosy in great apes and Mineral elements of primate diets: The use of herb gardens and medicinal plants by primates living in the zoos and its implications on the biochemistry of primates, including humans
- Sustainability during the pandemics: Environmental innovations, social norms and health protocols as well as other lessons learned on cultural roots, the use of hygiene, waste management and environmental protection during the emergence of infectious diseases, including Coronaviruses, HIV/AIDS, Ebola, Zika, Spanish Influenza, malaria and other neglected tropical diseases