About the Bulletin

The Bulletin of the World Health Organization is an international journal of public health with a special focus on developing countries. Since it was first published in 1948, it has become one of the world’s leading public health journals. In keeping with its mission statement, the peer-reviewed monthly maintains an open-access policy so that the full contents of the journal and its archives are available online free of charge. As the flagship periodical of the World Health Organization (WHO), the Bulletin draws on WHO experts as editorial advisers, reviewers, and authors as well as on external collaborators. Anyone can submit a paper to the Bulletin, and no author charges are levied. All peer-reviewed articles are indexed, including in ISI Web of Science and MEDLINE.

The articles are available under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 IGO licence (CC BY 3.0 IGO). 

Impact Factor

2022 impact factor: 11.1
Ranked 12th out of 207 journals in the field of Public, Occupational and Environmental health.

ISSN 0042-9686

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