International Journal for Equity in Health would like to announce the launch of a new series looking at Multimorbidity and Equity in Health. Multimorbidity, the co-occurrence of health conditions in individuals and populations, is a phenomenon with high burden and high prevalence in persons and groups of disadvantaged circumstances, such as low socioeconomic status, immigrants, and ethnic/cultural minorities.

This special issue will accept papers on patterns and trends of multimorbidity inequity, variations in multimorbidity burden by social characteristics, and on the impact of multimorbidity inequity on health care resource use and outcomes.

Please submit your manuscript by January 15th 2013, please indicate in the cover letter the manuscript is submitted to the Multimorbidity and Equity in Health.

A 20% reduced publication rate is offered to papers accepted for the special issue.

Barbara Starfield, the founding editor of the International Journal for Equity in Health, co-founder and first president of the International Society for Equity in Health, Distinguished University Professor of Health Policy and Management and Pediatrics at Johns Hopkins University, a seminal researcher and highly praised teacher, died suddenly on Friday, June 10, 2011.

Message from the IJEqH Editors

To honor the work and legacy of Dr. Barbara Starfield, co-founder of the Johns Hopkins ACG® System, the ACG System Team is pleased to announce the creation of The Starfield Award. The Award will be given biannually in even numbered years, synchronized with the ACG International User Conference. The ACG System will make the application available in January of 2013, on the System website and upon request. Applications are due by October 31, 2013.

For more details please visit website.

• Announcement

  The IJEqH congratulates Dr. Varduhi Petrosyan, associate editor, for being promoted to Associate Professor of Health Sciences at the American University of Armenia (AUA) College of Health Sciences (CHS) in Yerevan, Armenia and Dr. Lorena Anna Ruano, managing editor, for her completion of her PhD thesis on the role of social participation in municipal health systems at the department of Epidemiology and Global Health in Umeå University, Sweden