Call for Chapters: Preventive Healthcare Strategies for a Changing Climate

Editors

Daryl Traylor, Chamberlain University, United States
Eboni Anderson, A.T. Still University - School of Osteopathic Medicine, United States

Call for Chapters

Proposals Submission Deadline: July 12, 2026
 Full Chapters Due: October 25, 2026
 Submission Date: October 25, 2026

Introduction

Extreme heat is no longer an occasional environmental concern. It is an increasingly urgent public health threat that affects clinical care, community health, occupational safety, emergency preparedness, housing, urban planning, and health equity. As climate change intensifies heat exposure, preventive health care must expand beyond its traditional focus on screening, immunization, lifestyle counseling, and chronic disease management to include the prevention of heat-related illness, injury, and death. This edited volume will examine heat stress as a preventable health problem. It will bring together scholars, clinicians, public health practitioners, policymakers, educators, and community-based experts to address how health systems and communities can anticipate, identify, and reduce heat-related risks before harm occurs.

Objective

This book will provide current research, practical frameworks, and applied strategies for climate-ready preventive care. It will explore the physiology and clinical recognition of heat stress, the effects of extreme heat on chronic disease and vulnerable populations, the role of patient counseling and heat-risk screening, and the systems needed to protect communities during extreme heat events. The volume will also address broader structural and policy issues, including occupational exposure, housing and cooling access, urban heat islands, emergency preparedness, environmental justice, and climate adaptation. By framing heat stress as a matter of prevention rather than only emergency response, the book aims to support new research, inform practice, and guide interventions that reduce preventable illness and death.

Target Audience

The target audience includes clinicians, public health practitioners, researchers, educators, policymakers, emergency planners, health system leaders, and students in medicine, public health, nursing, environmental health, occupational health, pharmacy, urban planning, social work, law, and related fields. The book will be especially relevant to primary care clinicians, emergency physicians, pediatricians, geriatricians, obstetricians, pharmacists, occupational health professionals, community health workers, public health departments, local governments, and organizations working with populations disproportionately affected by extreme heat.

Recommended Topics

Preventive health care in the era of climate change Climate change, extreme heat, and population health Human thermoregulation and the pathophysiology of heat stress Clinical recognition and prevention of heat-related illness Heat stress and chronic disease management Medication-related risks during extreme heat Heat risk among children, pregnant people, and older adults Occupational heat stress and worker protection Heat stress in athletes, schools, and outdoor recreation Mental health, cognition, sleep, and extreme heat Heat-health screening in primary care Patient counseling for heat risk reduction Community heat-health action plans Early warning systems and public health communication Health system preparedness for extreme heat events Emergency planning and heat-response coordination Heat surveillance, data systems, and predictive analytics Urban heat islands and the built environment Housing, cooling access, and energy insecurity Environmental justice and inequities in heat exposure Heat risk among people experiencing homelessness Heat exposure among migrant, rural, and outdoor worker populations Heat, air pollution, wildfire smoke, and compound climate hazards Climate-ready maternal and child health care Pharmacy, prescribing, and medication safety during heat events Legal and ethical issues in heat prevention Public policy approaches to heat-risk reduction Community-engaged approaches to heat resilience Implementation strategies for climate-ready preventive care Research priorities in climate, heat, and preventive health

Submission Procedure

Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before July 12, 2026, a chapter proposal of 1,000 to 2,000 words clearly explaining the mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Authors will be notified by July 26, 2026 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines.Full chapters of a minimum of 10,000 words (word count includes references and related readings) are expected to be submitted by October 25, 2026, and all interested authors must consult the guidelines for manuscript submissions at https://www.igi-global.com/publish/contributor-resources/before-you-write/ prior to submission. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-anonymized review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project.

Note: There are no submission or acceptance fees for manuscripts submitted to this book publication, Preventive Healthcare Strategies for a Changing Climate. All manuscripts are accepted based on a double-anonymized peer review editorial process.

All proposals should be submitted through the eEditorial Discovery® online submission manager.

Publisher

This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global Scientific Publishing, an international academic publisher of the "Information Science Reference", "Medical Information Science Reference", "Business Science Reference", and "Engineering Science Reference" imprints. IGI Global Scientific Publishing specializes in publishing reference books, scholarly journals, and electronic databases featuring academic research on a variety of innovative topic areas including, but not limited to, education, social science, medicine and healthcare, business and management, information science and technology, engineering, public administration, library and information science, media and communication studies, and environmental science. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit https://www.igi-global.com. This publication is anticipated to be released in 2027.

Indexing Information for Prospective Authors

IGI Global Scientific Publishing meets the criteria for inclusion in major indexing services such as Scopus; however, it is important to note that all indexing decisions are made independently by these services. IGI Global Scientific Publishing books are selectively indexed by the indexing organization after publication. Indexing cannot be guaranteed for any book prior to publication, and the indexing organization has complete control over the final selection and timeline.

Important Dates

July 12, 2026: Proposal Submission Deadline
July 26, 2026: Notification of Acceptance
October 25, 2026: Full Chapter Submission
December 27, 2026: Review Results Returned
February 7, 2027: Final Acceptance Notification
February 21, 2027: Final Chapter Submission

Inquiries

Daryl Traylor Chamberlain University daryl.traylor@outlook.com Eboni Anderson A.T. Still University - School of Osteopathic Medicine ebonianderson@atsu.edu
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