Editorial: Why a New Journal Called Public Health Reviews?

Why a new journal in Public Health?

Why a new journal? Because it's a Journal of Public Health Research. When we decided to launch a new journal, we thought a lot about the topics readers would like to see and read about. The most important thing was that the new journal had to fit the modern concept of public health. It immediately became clear that, whereas the concept of health is rather difficult to interpret, the public heal...

A journal called “I wonder why not”

A journal called " I wonder why not " Like the question below, papers addressing this could lead to advances in our understanding of inflammatory disease and pain. I wonder why I have never had a wart; nor a cold sore and I have never had the flu and very few colds. My son couldn't get chicken pox, despite putting him on purpose in contact with infected individuals, for months; finally he got I...

Why a New Journal?

Is there need for a journal of infectious diseases in obstetrics and gynecology? It is true that the number of articles related to infectious diseases in obstetrics and gynecology published in existing journals has increased significantly. Many of these articles contain important information on antibiotics or the microbiology and pathophysiology as well as the epidemiology of infections that th...

Editorial: Evidence-Based Public Health: Why, What and How

In 2009, Brownson et al. (1) noted the growing consensus that evidence-based public health (EBPH) decision-making is influenced by three factors—namely, (1) best available evidence, (2) resources, and (3) population needs, values, and preferences. While this model remains both popular and plausible, we are still some way from a fulsome understanding of how its constituent parts are (or ought to...

Why Publishing the Journal of Public Health in Africa