Bulletin of the World Health Organization
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Discipline | Public health |
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Language | English, abstracts in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish |
Edited by | Laragh Gollogly |
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History | 1947–present |
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Frequency | Monthly |
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9.408 (2020) | |
Standard abbreviations | |
ISO 4 | Bull. World Health Organ. |
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CODEN | BWHOA6 |
ISSN | 0042-9686 (print) 1564-0604 (web) |
LCCN | 52004897 |
OCLC no. | 01588496 |
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The Bulletin of the World Health Organization is a monthly public health journal published by the World Health Organization that was established in 1947.[1] Articles are published in English and abstracts are available in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish.[2]
It is open access journal and uses the Creative Commons 3.0 IGO license (specifically CC BY 3.0 IGO).[3][4]
History[]
In 1999, under the Director-Generalship of Gro Harlem Brundtland (1998–2003), the Bulletin of the World Health Organization was given its current title, and subsumed two other WHO periodicals: the World Health Forum, which published accounts of field work and was oriented towards primary health care, and the World Health Statistics Quarterly (journal abbreviation Wld hlth statist. quart.; French: Rapport trimestriel de statistiques sanitaires mondiales, journal abbreviation Rapp. trimest. statist. sanit. mond.[5][6]), which mainly published epidemiological data; the latter was previously known in English as the World Health Statistics Report.[7]
Abstracting and indexing[]
The Bulletin is abstracted and indexed in Abstracts on Hygiene, Biological Abstracts, Current Contents, Excerpta Medica, International Pharmaceutical Abstracts, Index Medicus/MEDLINE/PubMed, Nutrition Abstracts and Reviews, Pollution Abstracts, Science Citation Index, and Tropical Diseases Bulletin.[8] According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 9.408, ranking it 7th out of 193 journals in the category "Public, Environmental & Occupational Health".[9]
See also[]
Other publications of the World Health Organization:
- Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal
- Human Resources for Health (journal published in collaboration with BioMed Central)
- Pan American Journal of Public Health
- World Health Report
- WHO South-East Asia Journal of Public Health
References[]
- ^ "Bulletin/1947-1948/". Bulletin of the World Health Organization. World Health Organization. Archived from the original on 6 January 2011. Retrieved 7 February 2011.
- ^ "Guidelines for contributors". Bulletin of the World Health Organization. World Health Organization. Archived from the original on 11 January 2011. Retrieved 7 February 2011.
- ^ "Public health round-up". Bull World Health Organ. 92 (7): 468–469. 2014. doi:10.2471/BLT.14.010714. PMC 4121872. PMID 25110369.
- ^ "WHO | Rights and Permissions". WHO. Archived from the original on 19 April 2017. Retrieved 20 July 2019.
- ^ "Vol. 50, No. 3/4, 1997" (PDF). World Health Statistics Quarterly. World Health Organization. 50 (3): 1–213. 1997. Retrieved 9 March 2021.
- ^ "World health statistics quarterly = Rapport trimestriel de statistiques sanitaires mondiales". United Nations Digital Library. United Nations. Retrieved 9 March 2021.
- ^ "The new Bulletin". Bulletin of the World Health Organization. World Health Organization. 86 (12): 909–988. December 2008. Archived from the original on 21 April 2014. Retrieved 9 March 2021.
- ^ "Advertisement flyer" (PDF). Bulletin of the World Health Organization. World Health Organization. Retrieved 7 February 2011.
- ^ "Web of Science". 2020. Retrieved 30 June 2021.
External links[]
- World Health Organization academic journals
- Publications established in 1947
- Public health journals
- Open access journals
- Monthly journals
- Multilingual journals