Aim
Public Health and Society provides a peer-reviewed venue for public health and society. The journal is intended for public health researchers, social epidemiologists, policy analysts, and community-health practitioners. Its editorial goal is to publish articles that make the research question, method, evidence, and limitations visible enough for readers to evaluate and reuse.
Core Scope
The journal considers manuscripts in the following areas:
- Original studies in population health with transparent assumptions and evaluable evidence.
- Research on social determinants that explains methods, data, and interpretation limits.
- Applied work involving health equity where practical relevance is supported by analysis rather than assertion.
- Interdisciplinary work connecting community interventions to adjacent scientific, engineering, health, environmental, social, or policy questions.
Article Types Considered
The journal may consider population-health studies, mixed-methods articles, intervention evaluations, policy analyses, qualitative studies, and reviews. Article type should be selected according to the main contribution, not according to desired length or perceived prestige.
Method and Evidence Expectations
For this field, manuscripts should pay particular attention to:
- population definition
- sampling and recruitment
- measurement validity
- equity analysis
- policy or community context
Out of Scope
The journal does not consider manuscripts that are purely promotional, lack a research question, duplicate previously published work, make unsupported clinical or policy claims, present unverifiable results, or fall outside public health and society. Manuscripts that are technically sound but do not fit the journal's subject identity may be returned before peer review.
Editorial Standard
The journal does not require spectacular novelty. It requires a clear contribution, appropriate citations, transparent methods, relevant ethical approvals where needed, and a limitations section. Reviewers and editors should ask whether the work is trustworthy and useful for its intended readership.