PUBLIC HEALTH JOURNALS' PUBLIC HEALTH PERSPECTIVE

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PUBLIC HEALTH JOURNALS' PUBLIC HEALTH PERSPECTIVE

• Dr. Bekir KAPLAN, Dr. Dilek ASLAN
• Ankara, Türkiye

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BACKGROUND

• Major interest in public health services and
  public health professionals has been the public
  health problems of the community (1).
• Public health professionals should contribute to
  determining public health problems, finding
  solutions and improving health status of the
  community.

1- Bilir N. Degisen Saglik Örüntülerinde Halk
Sagligi Çalisanlarinin Rolü Kronik Hastaliklar
ve Yaslilik Sorunlari. TOPLUM HEKIMLIGI BÜLTENI
Cilt 25, Sayi 3, Eylül 2006
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AIM

• The aim of the present study is to assess the
  public health perspective of the five public
  health journals with the highest impact factors
  in 2007 (2).

2- http//admin-apps.isiknowledge.com/JCR/JCR?RQL
IST_SUMMARY_JOURNALcursor1
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METHOD-1

• Web-based search was conducted in August 2008 and
  March 2009.
• Five journals with the highest impact factors
• American Journal of Preventive Medicine (AJPM),
• American Journal of Public Health (AJPH),
• European Journal of Public Health (EJPH),
• Annual Review of Public Health(ARPH),
• Preventive Medicine (PM).
• Totally, 964 articles in five journals were
  searched.

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METHOD-2

• Variables
• Journals name
• Journals content (type of the article original
  research,
• review, letter, etc)
• Number of articles published
• Authors country and affiliation
• Articles name
• Articles content, target group, duration

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Content of the articles
METHOD-3

• Health Administration
• Health Economy
• Health Education
• Communicable Diseases
• Non-communicable Diseases
• Child Health
• Mental Health,
• Geriatric Health,

• Occupational Health
• Reproductive Health
• Humanitarian Crisis
• Environmental Health
• Health Promotion
• Accident-Injuries-Violence
• International health
• Others.

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METHOD-4

• The developed and developing countries were
  classified according to human development indices
  (HDI).
• If the indices are higher than 0.9, the country
  was classified as developed country (3).

• The news titles were inspected on WHO internet
  address in 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008 years (4).
• The relations were assessed between public health
  journal and those news.

3- http//hdr.undp.org/en/media/HDI_2008_EN_Tables
.pdf 4- http//www.who.int/mediacentre/news/en/ind
ex.html
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METHOD-5

• ANOTHER SEARCH WAS CONDUCTED
• From 2005 to 2008 the global news on the WHO web
  site was assessed (4).
• The comparison of the scientific journals and
  global public health agenda (WHO) was done

4- http//www.who.int/mediacentre/news/en/index.ht
ml
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results-1

• Totally 964 articles with supplements
• Ninety one articles (in 6 supplements)were not
  included
• The subjects of the supplements were tobacco
  control, humanitarian crisis, accident/injuries/vi
  olence, communicable diseases, substance and
  alcohol use and health education.
• The constant of the articles were original
  article 63.91 (n558), the others such as
  review, letter etc. 36.09 (315).

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JOURNALS AND NUMBER OF ARTICLES
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RESULTS

• The subjects of communicable disease were HIV
  with 54.9, influenza with 6.8 and tuberculosis
  with 4.9.
• Ninty-six point one percent of HIV/AIDS releated
  articles were from developed countries.

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NEWS (Number-content in WHO Web-site)

• 2005 88 News
• Humanitarian Crisis12.5
• (Especially about Tsunami)
• Polio Virus Infection 10.2
• HIV/AIDS 7.9
• 2006 81 News
• HIV/AIDS 8.6, Tuberculosis 7.4
• Polio Virus Infection 6.1.

• 2007 66 News
• Tuberculosis 9,
• HIV 6
• Influenza Virus Infection 4.5
• 2008 50 News
• Cholera, HIV, Tobacco control with 6.

http//www.who.int/mediacentre/news/en/index.html
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CONCLUSION

• Majority of the articles were from developed
  countries.
• The most popular subjects were Health Promotion,
  Communicable Diseases, Non-communicable Diseases.
• Least popular subjects were Health Economic,
  Environmental Health, Geriatrics.
• Adult age group was the most frequent among all
  age groups.
• The most popular news on the WHO agenda were
  HIV/AIDS, Influenza, and TB. It was parallel with
  the content of the articles. However, articles
  were majorly from developed countries whereas WHO
  agenda was from less developed countries.

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recommendations

• The content of the article is recommended to be
  focused on the most public health problems
  especially in less developed world.
• Age transition in the recent decades should be
  taken into consideration in the agenda of the
  journals.
• Articles from developing countries should be
  supported from developed world.

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