MATERIA SOCIO MEDICA Vol. 20 • No.2 • 2008 Materia Socio Medica is Indexed in Pubmed and Archived in PubMed Central

Received: 01 February 2013; Accepted: 25 February 2013 Confl ict of interest: none declared. © AVICENA 2013

DOI: 10.5455/msm.2013.25.4-5 Thirty Years of Scientific and Research Journal EDITORIAL Mat Soc Med. 2013 Mar; 25(1): 4-5 Materia Socio Medica Materia Socio Medica is Indexed in Pubmed

This year (2008) we are celebrating an important Sad), Želimir Jakšić (Zagreb), Petar Stavridis (Skopje), and Archived in PubMedjubilee Central – thirty years of existence of the scientific and Ivo Đurišić (Titograd). professional journal „Materia Socio Medica. The jour- Redakcijski odbor časopisa MATERIA SOCIO ME- Izet Masic nal started in 1978 and then it was registered as Materia DICA IUGOSLAVICA godine 1985. činili su: prof. dr. Academy of medical sciences of , , BosniaSocio and Medica Herzegovina Iugoslavica – scientific and professional Arif Smajkić (glavni i odgovorni urednik); Zvonimir Tolj journal of the Alliance of Social Medicine Association (zamjenik glavnog urednika); Izet Mašić, Luka Kovačić, of Yugoslavia. The journal is registered at the Republic Tomislav Marković (sekretari): Ekrem Beširević (tehnički Corresponding author: Izet Masic, MD PhD, Academy of medical sciencesCommittee of Bosnia for and information’s Herzegovina, of theSarajevo, Executive Bosnia council and ofHerzegovina urednik) i članovi: Enver Baraku (Priština), Saša Cvahte B&H. The founder of the journal was Section for social (Ljubljana), Josip Dulić (Novi Sad), Ivo Đurišić (Tito- ABSTRACT medicine of the Physicians Association of B&H, also one grad), Želimir Jakšić (Zagreb), Predrag Jalača (Beograd), Materia Socio Medica Journal has been accepted for archiving in PubMed Centralof the membersfrom 2011. of The Alliance journal ofstarted Social in Medicine1993 as offi Associ cial journal- Violeta of Social Malinska (Skoplje). ation of Yugoslavia. The creator and the first main and Redakcijski odbor časopisa MATERIA SOCIO MEDI- Medicine Association of B&H. During last 3 years Mat Soc Med has included in almost all femous on-line databases (except WoS). All issues of Mat editor in charge was respectable professor Arif Smajkic, CA IUGOSLAVICA godine 2000. činili su: prof. dr. Izet Soc Med published in 2012 are now visible on PubMed/PubMed Central. who was than president of the Section for Section for so- Mašić (glavni i odgovorni urednik); Irena Jokić (sekretar Key words: Materia Socio Medica, PubMed Central. cial medicine of the Physicians Association of B&H and Redakcije); Mirza Hamzić (tehnički urednik) i članovi: president of the Social Medicine Association of Yugosla- Ivan Bagarić (Sarajevo), Zijad Bešlagić (), Senad via. The headquarters of the journal, and editorial board Huseinagić (), Zdenko Krajnc (), Dragana Th is year (2013) we are celebrating a signifi cant anniversary - 35-years also throughout the former Yugoslavia. Also on biomedical faculties in premises, was located in Sarajevo from the beginning Nikšić (Sarajevo), Ajnija Omanić (Sarajevo), Aida Pašić anniversary of the scientifi c journal Materia Socio Medica. Th e journal untilB&H the and end other of publishingrepublics of in the 1990. former After Yugoslavia Arif Smajkic, were (Tuzla), Habiba Salihović (Sarajevo), Arif Smajkić (Sara- was founded in 1978 and then was registered as Materia Socio Medica for aTh period e journal of time in over the tenjournal years editorof its existence, was Zvonimir has published Tolj jevo), more Selimthan Toromanović (Cazin). Iugoslavica - scientifi c and professional journal of the Yugoslav Associa- MD1000 from scientifi . c and professional papers, by very eminent expertsEditorial in the Board of Journal Materia Socio Medica Iugo- tion of Social Medicine. Th e founder of the journal was the Section for fi Redakcijskield of Social odbormedicine časopisa and healthMATERIA care organizations, SOCIO ME - mostslavica of which in 1978 consists of: Arif Smajkic, editor-in-chief, Social Medicine of the Association of Physicians of B&H, otherwise DICAwere presented IUGOSLAVICA at three conferences godine 1978. of Social(prvi medicinebroj) činili and healthZvonimir care Tolj, vice editor-in-chief, Izet Masic, secretary. one of the alliance members of the Association of Social Medicine of su:organizations, prof. dr. Arif including: Smajkić Sarajevo (glavni in i odgovorni1978, Belgrade urednik); in 1982 andMembers Zagreb of the Board from the year 1978. to 1988. godine Zvonimir Tolj (zamjenik glavnog urednika); Predrag were very eminent and femous teachers of Social medici- Yugoslavia. Th e creator and fi rst Editor-in-Chief of the journal was Pro- in 1988, and the annual meetings of Social Medicine, which have tradi- Jelača, Luka Kovačić, Tomislav Marković (sekretari); ne and specialist of Social medicine and health care or- fessor Arif Smajkic, president of the Association for Social Medicine of Bobotionally Samardžić been organized (tehnički on urednik);mountain Đurđa Igman Čokorilo called „Igman (lek- Midtermsganization of from all republics former Jugoslavija: Kajetan Yugoslavia. Th e headquarters of the Editorial Board of the journal was tor)Social i članovi: Medicine“ Enver where Baraku was presented (Priština), an Predrag aver- age Mićović of 50 to 100 Blečić reports – ofRijeka, Ivo Brodarac – Zagreb, Radomir Gerić in Sarajevo since its establishment until termination of its publication (Beograd),experts in Social Saša MedicineCvahte (Ljubljana), from the former Josip Yugoslavia. Dulić (Novi Also, a– fewBeograd, issues Pavle Gregorić – Zagreb, Vojislav Djukanović in 1990. Aft er Arif Smajkic, for a period of time the journal was edited by doctor Zvonimir Tolj from Mostar. Editorial Board of the Journal MATERIA SOCIO MEDICA IUGOSLAVICA 1978 (fi rst issue) consisted of: Arif Smajkic (Editor-in-Chief), Zvoni- mir Tolj (Executive Editor), Predrag Jelaca, Luka Kovacic, Tomislav Markovic (Secretaries); Bobo Samardzic (Technical Editor), Djurdja Cokorilo (Lector) and members: Enver Baraku (Prishtina), Predrag Micovic (Belgrade), Sasa Cvahte (Ljubljana), Josip Dulic (Novi Sad), Zelimir Jaksic (Zagreb), Petar Stavridis (Skopje), Ivo Djurisic (Titograd). Th e original intention of journal initiators was to publish works in the fi eld of Social medicine and health care organizations, or in the area of planning and programming of health care, health econom- ics, health Figure 2. Cover pages of MSMIISSN from 1512-7680 the years: 1978, 1982, 2000 and 2007. informatics, health promotion, sociology, medical ethics, organization MATERIA SOCIO MEDICA and protection of population and nosological groups, etc. Since Social MATERIA SOCIO MEDICA Journal of the Academy of Medical Sciences of Bosnia and Herzegovina Uvodnik • Editorial 76 Social Medicine–Public Health Journal

medicine and its specifi c scientifi c disciplines at the time were at a very MAT SOC MED, 2008; 20(2): 73-132 MAT SOC MED. 2012 Jul; 24(3): 137-208 high level and among the most developed in Europe there was a need that in the former Yugoslavia is formed one such journal that would cover all of these disciplines. An important fact is that in Europe there were a lot of journals that covered these contents and Yugoslav experts had the op- Unknown author portunity to publish their scientifi c papers in such journals. On the other hand, Social medicine and health care organizations have had intensive development trend which has been refl ected in a steady and continuous organization of scientifi c conferences in this fi eld in all the republics of former Yugoslavia, where was presented hundreds of very high quality PROF. ANDRIJA STAMPAR (1892 - 1968), FIRST PRESIDENT OF GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION IN 1948 pISSN 1512-7680/eISSN 1986-597X papers whose contents signifi cantly infl uenced the development of health care policy, from the local to the highest institutional levels in B&H and Figure 1. Cover pages of published journal from diff erent periods

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of works performed in the 10th year of continuous cooperation of the Yugoslav and Swedish Association of Social Medicine („Yugoslav- Swed- ish Days of Social Medicine“), in which the eminent scholars of Social Medicine from all university centers of the former Yugoslavia the results of these studies were published in papers with these sets in the journal Materia Socio Medica Iugoslavica. (Figure 1). Journal Materia Socio Medica Iugoslavica is due to the war in B&H stopped in the period since 1990 to 2000, and with the formation of the Association for Social Medicine - Public Health of B&H at the In- augural Meeting of the Association held in March 2000 in Tuzla, the journal is revitalized again with a new name Materia Socio Medica and as such is issued today (1, 2, 3). During this year will be issued its 25th volume. Editorial Board of the Journal MATERIA SOCIO MEDICA 2000 included Professor Izet Masic (Editor-in-Chief), Irena Jokic (Sec- retary), Mirza Hamzic (Technical Editor) and members: Ivan Bagaric (Sarajevo), Zijad Bešlagic (Tuzla), Senad Huseinagic (Zenica), Zdenko Krajnc (Travnik), Dragana Niksic (Sarajevo), Ajnija Omanic (Sarajevo), Aida Pasic (Tuzla), Habiba Salihovic (Sarajevo), Arif Smajkic (Sarajevo), Selim Toromanovic (Cazin). Since the Association for Social Medicine - Public Health of B&H was organized relatively late, and the reasons were wartime and post-war conditions in which the experts in this area have been little or insuffi- ciently engaged for various reasons, which among other things resulted in the relatively small number of specialist of Social Medicine actively engaged in its reputation. Among other things, the strategic objectives of the Association opted to issue the journal, but under different name. The journal was originally published as a double issue of the first three volumes and it is very significant and very quickly become recognizable in B&H, and the wider former Yugoslav region. In 2001 the Associa- tion organized the First Congress of Social Medicine and Health Care Organization in Sarajevo, and on that occasion many of the experts in Social Medi- cine from former Yugoslav republics attended this Con- gress, from which was published more than 60 papers in several issues of the Materia Socio Medica. The Association has established a traditional organization of the conference „Days of Social Medicine“ (Tuzla 2002, Zenica 2003, Cazin 2004, 2005, Travnik 2006, Blagaj 2008, Zenica 2010) where in average was presented about fifty scientific and professional papers. Most of those, after the detailed review was pub- lished in the journal Materia Socio Medica. Also, in 2007 in was organized the Second Congress of Social Medicine and Health Care Organizations, from which are published in several is- sues presented 22455 works. Since 2005 Materia Socio Medica has been published in four is- sues per year, with high quality content and technical quality of the work predominantly in English, which has raised even more the rating of the journal. That’s why we started the initiative of its inclusion in indexing databases. Today’s Materia Socio Medica is reputable scientific journal of international character, included in more than 20 online biomedical databases. Since the 2009 when was founded the Academy of Medical Sciences of Bosnia and Herzegovina the journal Materia Socio Medica becomes official scientific journal of the Association, given that the Pub- Figure 2. Submiting, reviewing and accepting process to MSM lic Health Association of B&H ceased its activities. Indisputable fact is thematically cover special international scientific conferences, as it was that the journal Materia Socio Medica is at the shelves of all libraries of organized in Sarajevo 1979 and was devoted to the topic „An analysis major university centers in Europe and in the world speaks a lot about of national health care system“ at which 22 eminent European profes- its importance. Its entry in the database PubMed/PubMed Central will sors of Social Medicine (Kesic, Zar- kovic, Macara, Deliege, Roedling, even more raise its scientific rating for years to come. (Figure 2). Swonstrom, Lindgren, and others), published their papers in a separate REFERENCES thematic issue. In particular, we highlight the topic of the journal Mat Soc Med Iugoslavica from 1981 dedicated to the organization of primary 1. Masic I. Materia Socio Medica u novom ruhu. Mat Soc Med. 2000; health care whose works have been presented at the Symposium on this 12(1-2): 3-4. subject in Mostar. 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