The Bulletin of the World Health Organization is a monthly public health journal published by the World Health Organization

World Health Organization

The World Health Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations that acts as a coordinating authority on international public health. Established on 7 April 1948, with headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, the agency inherited the mandate and resources of its predecessor, the Health...

 that was established in 1947. It aims to give 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...

 policy and practice guidance based on the best evidence available, while encouraging closer links between scientific investigation and the art of helping populations to lead healthier lives. Articles are published in English and abstracts are available in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish.

Abstracting and indexing

The Bulletin is abstracted and indexed in Abstracts on Hygiene, Biological Abstracts

Biological Abstracts

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, Current Contents

Current Contents

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, Excerpta Medica

EMBASE

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, International Pharmaceutical Abstracts, Index Medicus

Index medicus

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/MEDLINE

MEDLINE

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/PubMed

PubMed

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, Nutrition Abstracts and Reviews, Pollution Abstracts, Science Citation Index

Science Citation Index

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, and Tropical Diseases Bulletin. According to the Journal Citation Reports

Journal Citation Reports

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, the journal has a 2009 impact factor

Impact factor

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 of 5.302, ranking it 7th out of 122 journals in the category "Public, Environmental & Occupational Health".

See also

Other publications of the World Health Organization:

• Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal
  Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal
  The Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal is a healthcare journal published by the Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office of the World Health Organization. The journal publishes original research in the area of public health and related biomedical or technical subjects, with particular relevance to...
  
  
• Human Resources for Health
  Human Resources for Health
  Human Resources for Health is a peer-reviewed, open-access, public health journal publishing original research and case studies on issues of information, planning, production, management, and governance of the health workforce, and their links with health care delivery and health outcomes,...
  
  (journal published in collaboration with BioMed Central
  BioMed Central
  BioMed Central is a UK-based, for-profit scientific publisher specialising in open access journal publication. BMC, and its sister companies Chemistry Central and PhysMath Central, publish over 200 scientific journals. Most BMC journals are now published only online. BMC describes itself as the...
  
  )
• Pan American Journal of Public Health
  Pan American Journal of Public Health
  The Pan American Journal of Public Health is a peer-reviewed open-access public health journal covering research and case studies on issues of public health significance, mainly in areas related to national and local health systems, to improve the health of the peoples of the Americas...
  
  
• World Health Report
  World Health Report
  The World Health Report is a series of reports produced regularly by the World Health Organization . First published in 1995, the World Health Report is WHO's leading publication...