All manuscripts received by CMHP will be peer-reviewed by at least two reviewers via Open Journal System (OJS) based on the originality, contribution to the field of the scientific area, coherence of the analysis, grammar, and style. This journal uses the framework of Double-Blind Peer Preview Process policy, which means that both the reviewer and author identities are concealed from the reviewers, and vice versa, throughout the review process. The final decision on the acceptability, or otherwise, of manuscripts will be taken by the board of editors based on reviewers' comments presented during an editorial board meeting. Scanning for instances of plagiarism present in manuscripts will be conducted by means of Turnitin software. In each manuscript, peer reviewers will be rated from the substantial and technical aspects. Peer reviewers that collaborate with CMHP are the experts in public health at the national and international levels and are experienced in prestigious journal management and publication system.

The editor or editorial board considers the feedback provided by the peer reviewers and arrives at a decision. The following are the most common decisions:

• accept without any changes (acceptance): the journal will publish the paper in its original form
• accept with minor revisions (acceptance): the journal will publish the paper and asks the author to make small corrections
• accept after major revisions (conditional acceptance ): the journal will publish the paper provided the authors make the changes suggested by the reviewers and/or editors
• revise and resubmit (conditional rejection): the journal is willing to reconsider the paper in another round of decision making after the authors make major changes
• reject the paper (outright rejection): the journal will not publish the paper or reconsider it even if the authors make major revisions

The reviewers decision will be considered by the Board of Editors to determine the ensuing process of the manuscript. Although the article review process is fast, we ensure that articles are reviewed properly, processing articles takes an average of 44 days.

• Revision Stage. Once the manuscript has been received with notations of minor or major revisions, it will be returned to the author with a review summary form. Authors are allotted 1-3 weeks to revise.  
• Final decision. At this stage, the manuscript will be re-evaluated by the Editors to ensure that the author has revised in response to the reviewers concerns. In this final decision, the manuscript may still be rejected if the author did not seriously conduct the revisions necessary.
• Proofread. Once the manuscript has been deemed acceptable by the Editors, it will undergo a proofreading process to maintain linguistic quality.
• Publication confirmation. At this stage, the final layout of the manuscript will be resent to the author to ensure that the content is in accordance with the authors writing. At this stage, the author may revise any typographical error found in the final manuscript. Once confirmation from the author is given, the Editor will process the manuscript for online publication on the website as well as print publication. The author(s) will receive the final version of the manuscript as a PDF file. PROOF of all manuscripts will be provided to the corresponding author. The PROOF should be read carefully, checked against the typed manuscript, and the corrections may be returned within 7 days. 
• Rejection confirmation. If manuscript is rejected, the author will be notified by Chief Editor with a statement of reasons for rejection. The author may appeal to Chief Editor if he or she believes an unfair judgement has been made which encloses the authors reasons. Chief Editor will review and discuss the reasons with Section Editors responsible for the manuscript, and later decide whether to accept or deny the appeal.
• Copyright of manuscripts. Copyright of the article is retained by the author (s).  In order to be accepted and published by CMHP, author(s) submitting the article manuscript should complete all the review stages. By submitting the manuscript, the author(s) agreed to these following terms: Authors are permitted to disseminate published article by sharing the link/DOI of the article at CMHP. Authors are allowed to use their articles for any legal purposes deemed necessary without written permission from CMHP with an acknowledgement of initial publication to this journal.  This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY). 

All reviewing process are in double blind peer review and managed by editor in the Open Journal System (OJS).

The following diagrams presents the flow of manuscript processing. Although the manuscript will go through a rigorous review and a long chain of process, we work hard to ensure that editor’s decision is made within on average 44 days.

STEP 1

1. The author registers on CMHP’s website and logs in using their account.
2. The author submits the manuscript along with the required supporting files.
3. Submitted article will undergo plagiarism check, and assessment of completeness of the supporting files and adherence to double blind format.
4. The author will be contacted if there is any indication of plagiarism, the supporting files are incomplete, or the manuscript contains information not deemed appropriate for double blind review.
5. The author will be invited to submit a revised version.

STEP 2

1. The editor will check whether the manuscript is within the scope of CMHP and whether the quality of the manuscript is good and suitable for review process.
2. Manuscript quality of writing is checked against CMHP manuscript template guidelines for authors.

STEP 3

Good quality manuscript will be sent to two reviewers.

STEP 4

1. Results and recommendation from the review process will be assessed by the editor and the editor will decide whether the manuscript is accepted, requires revisions, or rejected.
2. Manuscript needing revision will be returned to the author for revision.
3. The revised manuscript will be sent to the reviewers who will check whether all required revision and questions have been addressed.
4. The editor will decide whether the revised manuscript is suitable for publication, needs further revision or is completely rejected, taking into account reviewer's recommendation.

STEP 5

1. Accepted manuscript will undergo an editing process by the copyeditor.
2. Manuscripts are proofread by professional proofreaders and the results are returned to the author for revision.
3. The revised proof will go through a lay-outing process based on CMHP publication standards.

STEP 6

The final proof will be sent to the author for final check before publication.

STEP 7

Article is assigned to an issue and published.