Smart: Journal of Public Health (SPubHealth) is dedicated to the principles of open scientific exchange and the broad dissemination of public health research. To ensure that the research we publish is highly accessible and maximally reusable, we operate under an Open Access framework.

Copyright Ownership

Authors who publish with SPubHealth retain the full copyright and full publishing rights to their work without restrictions. By submitting a manuscript, authors grant the journal the right of first publication, allowing the work to be formally recognized and disseminated to the global academic community.

License Terms: CC BY-SA 4.0

All articles published in SPubHealth are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Under this license, readers, researchers, and institutions are free to:

• Share: Copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format.

• Adapt: Remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, including commercial endeavors.

However, these freedoms are granted under the following conditions:

• Attribution (BY): Users must give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the journal (SPubHealth), provide a link to the original publication and the Creative Commons license, and clearly indicate if any changes were made. This attribution must be done in a reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses the user or their specific use of the work.

• ShareAlike (SA): If users remix, transform, or build upon the original published material, they must distribute their new, resulting contributions under the exact same license (CC BY-SA 4.0) as the original.

Self-Archiving Policy

In alignment with our Open Access mission and the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, authors are strongly encouraged to self-archive their work. Authors are permitted to deposit all versions of their article (Pre-print, Author's Accepted Manuscript, and the final Published PDF) in institutional repositories, subject-based repositories, or on their personal websites immediately upon publication, provided that an accurate citation and link to the final published version in SPubHealth are included.