Skip to Main Content

Public Health and Data: Journals

Digital display showing data relating to COVID 19 rates

The University of Manchester Library provides access to a wide range of journals relating to Public Health and Data.

Peer-reviewed journal articles are evaluated and critiqued by researchers and experts in the field before being published. They are high quality academic sources of information.

e-journal Spotlight

The Bulletin of the World Health Organisation Journal 

The Bulletin of the World Health Organization is a fully open-access public health journal with a special focus on low- and middle-income countries. It was first published in 1948 and, since then, has sought to make its contents as widely available as possible. There are no article-processing charges associated with submitting to or publishing in the Bulletin. With a Clarivate impact factor of 11.1, the Bulletin is one of the top twelve journals in the field of public and environmental health (provided by Publisher).

Front cover of Public Health

Public Health

Public Health is an international, multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journal. The journal aims to publish international articles focused on all aspects of the science and philosophy of; public health, public health services and public health systems, seeking to challenge the status quo to improve the health and care of populations or communities.

The journal will publish robust and ethically sound articles of any study type whereby the focus is consistent with our aim. This includes but is not limited to:

 

  • Public health theory, models and frameworks
  • Epidemiology - social and political
  • Need or impact assessments with a strategic/population level focus
  • Effectiveness, management and re-design of health and social care services/support, and wider determinant services such as education, welfare, employment services to improve public health
  • Health Protection including control of communicable diseases
  • Health promotion and disease prevention
  • Development of public health programmes or interventions
  • Public health governance, audit and quality
  • Public health law and ethics
  • Public health policy and comparisons
  • Capacity in public health systems and workforce

(Provided by Publisher)

 

The University of Manchester Library provides full access to this journal from 1888 (Volume 1, Issue 1) to the present day.

 

Public Health & Data e-journals

Search for journal articles using Library Search (you can do keyword searches for either the title of a journal or an article).

 

Relevant journals relating to Public Health and Data:

 

The above list was compiled using Scopus and comprises a selection of the top journals relating to 'Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health' based on Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP) ranking. For more information on the SNIP ranking metric, please visit Elsevier's Measuring a Journal's Impact page.

 

You can also browse a selection of the Public Health and Data related journals we subscribe to using Browzine.

 

Browzine - Public Health

Google Scholar

Google Scholar can be a useful tool to use when searching for journal articles. However, it's important to be aware that Google Scholar will return results for articles, journals and other resources that the Library doesn't necessarily subscribe to and which you might not have free access to as a student at the University of Manchester.

Google Scholar Search

Library Access

In order to make it easier to identify and access content provided by the Library when searching Google (and without having to visit Library Search), we recommend that you download Library AccessThis is a useful browser extension that will pop-up and notify you when you are on a journal or website that the Library has a subscription for. 

Library Access

Order an Article

If you are unable to access an article that you need, fill in the Order an Article form and we will get it for you.

University staff should use the Order an Article (Staff) form.

Order an Article

Creative Commons Licence This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Licence.