The ''Bulletin of the World Health Organization'' is a monthly
public health journal published by the
World Health Organization
The World Health Organization (WHO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for international public health. The WHO Constitution states its main objective as "the attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level o ...
that was established in 1947. Articles are published in English and abstracts are available in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish.
It is
open access
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journal and uses the
Creative Commons
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3.0 IGO license (specifically CC BY 3.0 IGO).
History
In 1999, under the Director-Generalship of
Gro Harlem Brundtland
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(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.''), which mainly published epidemiological data; the latter was previously known in English as the ''World Health Statistics Report''.
Abstracting and indexing
The Bulletin is abstracted and indexed in Abstracts on Hygiene,
Biological Abstracts
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Current Contents
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History
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, International Pharmaceutical Abstracts,
Index Medicus
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MEDLINE
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PubMed
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, Nutrition Abstracts and Reviews, Pollution Abstracts,
Science Citation Index
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, and
Tropical Diseases Bulletin
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. According to the ''
Journal Citation Reports
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'', the journal has a 2020
impact factor
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of 9.408, ranking it 7th out of 193 journals in the category "Public, Environmental & Occupational Health".
See also
Other publications of the World Health Organization:
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Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal''
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Human Resources for Health'' (journal published in collaboration with
BioMed Central
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)
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Pan American Journal of Public Health''
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World Health Report
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WHO South-East Asia Journal of Public Health''
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