The American Journal of Public Health is a monthly peer-reviewed

Peer review

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 medical journal published by the American Public Health Association

American Public Health Association

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 covering health policy and public health

Public health

Public health is "the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health through the organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, public and private, communities and individuals" . It is concerned with threats to health based on population health...

. The journal was established in 1911 and its stated mission is "to advance public health

Public health

Public health is "the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health through the organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, public and private, communities and individuals" . It is concerned with threats to health based on population health...

 research, policy, practice, and education." The journal occasionally publishes themed supplements. The editor-in-chief is Mary E. Northridge.

Content

The journal contains the following departments:

• Government, Politics, and Law - public health arguments grounded in critical analysis
• Health Policy and Ethics Forum - debates on public health issues
• Field Action Reports - reports on practice-based programs and initiatives with potential to advance the public's health
• Framing Health Matters - articles featuring work in the social sciences and other disciplines
• Faces of Public Health and Going Public - profiles of outstanding leaders and examples of vital public health work
• Images of Public Health, Public Health Then and Now, and Voices From the Past - stories from public health history still relevant today
• Highlights and guidance from the world of statistics

Impact

The American Journal of Public Health was voted one of the 100 most influential journals in biology and medicine over the last 100 years by Special Libraries Association. According to the Journal Citation Reports

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, the 2009 impact factor

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 is 4.241, ranking it second out of 95 titles in the category "Public, Environmental and Occupational Health" of the Social Sciences Edition and 9th out of 122 in the same category in the Science Edition.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in Ageline

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, Applied Social Science Index and Abstracts, Biological Abstracts

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, Chemical Abstracts Service

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, CINAHL

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, EMBASE/Excerpta Medica

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, Food Science and Technology Abstracts

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, MEDLINE

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, Psychological Abstracts

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, PsycINFO

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, Science Citation Index

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, Scopus

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, and Statistical Reference Index/LexisNexis

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