The Journal of Social Behavior and Community Health (JSBCH) is a semi-annually, peer-reviewed, and open access journal published by Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran. The journal offers some particular advantages, including free of charge submissions and publishing, as well as easy and fast online submission procedure. JSBCH intends to use the experiences of scientific people in various interdisciplinary fields and to be a unique global resource for high quality publication of articles with high scientific standard. The scopes of the journal includes the following areas:

• Social health
• Social behavior
• Lifestyle
• Social determinants of health
• Mental health
• Health psychology
• Organizational behaviour
• Eating habits
• Substance abuse
• Health risk