Committed to giving as many benefits as we can to our readers, while ready to assume some of the inherent risk we have decided to launch an e-JECH. This is a pioneering decision among the epidemiology and public health journals. From the next issue we will publish monthly and simultaneously a paper and an electronic version of the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. As other journals of the BMJ Publishing Group have already successfully done, for an experimental period, we will offer a full text, free access and interactive web journal.

Health communication is, nowadays, one of the most developed areas on the web. The e-revolution, which is carrying social structural changes, has already touched scientific publishing. Consequently, in …