Aim, Focus & Scope

JRTN focuses on the generation, application, and evaluation of nursing and health knowledge in settings where access to care and health outcomes are influenced by rurality, tropical conditions, geographical isolation, agricultural livelihoods, limited infrastructure, environmental exposure, social inequality, or constrained healthcare resources.

1. Rural Health Nursing and Agronursing

   Nursing and healthcare research concerning rural populations, agricultural workers, farming families, geographically isolated communities, and the occupational and environmental health risks associated with agricultural and rural ecosystems.

   Relevant topics include access to healthcare, rural nursing interventions, occupational injury and disease prevention, pesticide and environmental exposure, health promotion, community empowerment, and the health of agricultural families.

2. Tropical Nursing Practice

   Evidence-based nursing care, health education, surveillance, prevention, rehabilitation, and community management related to endemic, epidemic, neglected, and emerging tropical diseases.

   This scope includes clinical and community nursing responses to infectious and vector-borne diseases, outbreak management, patient adherence, symptom management, infection prevention, and continuity of care.

3. Disease Management in Resource-Limited Contexts

   Prevention, treatment support, self-management, rehabilitation, and longitudinal nursing care for communicable and non-communicable diseases affecting rural, tropical, underserved, or resource-constrained populations.

   Conditions may include tuberculosis, malaria, dengue, neglected tropical diseases, hypertension, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, chronic respiratory disease, and other locally significant health problems.

4. Maternal, Child, Family, and Community Health

   Culturally responsive nursing and public health interventions addressing maternal and neonatal health, child development, nutrition, stunting, reproductive health, family resilience, adolescent health, and community well-being.

   Priority is given to studies that address barriers to care, health literacy, culturally congruent practice, family participation, community-based interventions, and health inequality in remote or underserved settings.

5. Healthcare Technology and Innovation

   The design, implementation, evaluation, and ethical use of telehealth, digital health, mobile health, decision-support systems, appropriate healthcare technology, and innovative nursing care-delivery models.

   Technologies and innovations should demonstrate relevance to geographical, workforce, financial, technological, or infrastructural barriers affecting rural and tropical populations.

Manuscripts addressing clinical nursing, nursing education, management, technology, or other broad healthcare topics are considered when the rural, tropical, remote, underserved, or resource-limited context is integral to the research problem and scholarly contribution.

• The population is rural, tropical, remote, agricultural, geographically isolated, underserved, or resource-limited.
• The research problem is influenced by geography, climate, environment, occupation, culture, or healthcare access.
• The intervention or model of care is designed for a specific contextual or infrastructural constraint.
• The findings provide implications for nursing practice, education, management, public health, or healthcare policy.
• The manuscript explains why the findings are relevant beyond the immediate study location.
• The study demonstrates methodological, ethical, and scholarly rigor appropriate to its design.

• General nursing or clinical studies that do not establish a meaningful rural, tropical, underserved, remote, agricultural, or resource-limited context.
• Laboratory, biomedical, pharmaceutical, or basic science studies without a clear contribution to nursing, healthcare practice, health services, or public health.
• Descriptive institutional reports that do not provide adequate methodological rigor, analytical depth, or transferable scholarly contribution.
• Manuscripts focused primarily on the promotion or commercial evaluation of a product, service, institution, or proprietary system.
• Studies that do not meet applicable research ethics, informed-consent, participant-protection, or publication-ethics requirements.
• Manuscripts whose principal content falls outside nursing, healthcare, public health, health education, or health-system research.