Journal of Public Health

*Journal of Public Health*
Discipline	Public health
Language	English
Edited by	Eugene Milne, Ted Schrecker
Publication details
History	1892-present
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Frequency	Quarterly
Impact factor	1.648 (2018)
Standard abbreviations;
ISO 4	J. Public Health (Oxf.)
Indexing;
ISSN	1741-3842 (print); 1741-3850 (web);
LCCN	2004252324
OCLC no.	612530974
Links
	Journal homepage; Online access; Online archive;

The Journal of Public Health is a quarterly peer-reviewed public health journal. It was originally established in 1892 as the Journal of State Medicine by the Royal Institute of Public Health and has undergone several renames during its history. It acquired its current name in 2004 and is currently published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Faculty of Public Health.^[1] The editors-in-chief are Eugene Milne and Ted Schrecker (Durham University).

History

Journal of State Medicine (1892–1905)
Journal of Preventive Medicine (1905–1906)
Journal of the Royal Institute of Public Health (1907–1911)
Journal of State Medicine (1912–1937)
Journal of the Royal Institute of Public Health and Hygiene (1937–1963) (which also continues Journal of the Institute of Hygiene, London)
Royal Institute of Public Health and Hygiene Journal (1964–1968)
Community Health (1969–1978)
Community Medicine (1979–1989)
Journal of Public Health Medicine (1990–2003)
Journal of Public Health (2004–present)

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2013 impact factor of 2.296.^[2]