''Preventive Medicine'' is a
peer-reviewed
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medical journal
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History
The firs ...
published by
Elsevier
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since 1972. It covers all aspects of
preventive medicine
Preventive healthcare, or prophylaxis, consists of measures taken for the purposes of disease prevention.Hugh R. Leavell and E. Gurney Clark as "the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life, and promoting physical and mental hea ...
and
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". Analyzing the det ...
. The
editor-in-chief
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The highest-ranking editor of a publication may also be titled editor, managing ...
is
Eduardo L. Franco (
McGill University
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).
The founding editor was
Ernst Wynder
Ernst Ludwig Wynder (April 30, 1922 – July 14, 1999) was an American epidemiology and public health researcher who studied the health effects of smoking tobacco. His and Evarts Ambrose Graham's joint publication of "Tobacco Smoking as a Pos ...
.
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in
EMBASE,
Scopus
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,
Science Citation Index
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,
Current Contents
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History
''Cur ...
/Clinical Medicine,
BIOSIS Previews
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BIOSIS Previews ...
, and
Index Medicus
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/
MEDLINE
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/
PubMed
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. Its 2014
impact factor
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was 3.086, ranking it 25th among 153 journals in the category "General and Internal Medicine"
and 31st among 162 journals in the category "Public, Environmental, and Occupational Health".
References
External links
* {{Official, https://www.journals.elsevier.com/preventive-medicine
Public health journals
Elsevier academic journals
Monthly journals
Publications established in 1972
English-language journals
Preventive medicine journals