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Who We Are?

The Spanish Association of Health Communication (AECS), registered in group 1, section 1 of the National Registry of Associations with national number 593741 on November 3, 2009, is a non-profit organisation created on April 8 of the same year steered by health and communication professionals concerned with the optimisation of communication processes on health (URL https://aecs.es/).

Its official communication body is the Spanish Journal of Health Communication, which, with the ISSN 1989-9882, is published jointly with the Department of Communication of the Carlos III University of Madrid (URL https://e-revistas.uc3m.es/index.php/RECS) and is indexed at:

    • Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) database, included in the Web of Science platform.
    • ISOC database and in the DICE (Dissemination and Editorial Quality of Spanish Journals of Humanities and Social and Legal Sciences) analysis tools produced by the CSIC.
    • ERIH Plus, CIRC and MIAR (Information Matrix for Journal Analysis) database.
    •  REDIB Platform (Ibero-American Network of Innovation and Scientific Knowledge). Quartile Q1.
    • CUIDEN®, Bibliographic Database of the Index Foundation.
    • LATINDEX catalogue.
    • DIALNET (University of La Rioja).
    • Academic Search Premier (EBSCO)
    • DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals)

It has obtained the following distinctions:

    • Excellent journal certificate and the FECYT Quality Seal (2021)
    • Category A in area 14 of ANVUR (Agenzia Nazionale di Valutazione del Sistema
      Universitario e della Ricerca, Italy)

Among the many events organized by AECS, we highlight:

    • I Health Communication Conference, 2013
    • II Health Communication Conference, 2015
    • I National Conference and IV Regional Conference on Health Communication, 2016
    • I International Conference on Telemedicine and Health Research, 2016
    • I AECS Summer School, 2016
    • III International Conference on Health Communication, 2017

The registered office is at Universidad Carlos III, with the following URL https://aecs.es/

The AECS has signed collaboration agreements with:

    • Universidad Carlos III (Madrid)
    • Malaga University
    • Spanish Association of Physiotherapists
    • Spanish Association of Physiotherapists in Mental Health
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