Research Topic · Peer-Reviewed

Medical Public Health

Medical public health is the application of clinical and biomedical knowledge to population-level health protection and improvement, bridging individual patient care and community-wide prevention. It integrates epidemiology, preventive medicine, health services research, and clinical practice to address the determin…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 12 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 33× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 2641-4538 🗓 Reviewed July 2026

Overview

Medical public health is the application of clinical and biomedical knowledge to population-level health protection and improvement, bridging individual patient care and community-wide prevention. It integrates epidemiology, preventive medicine, health services research, and clinical practice to address the determinants and distribution of disease across groups rather than single individuals. Core activities include screening and early-detection programmes, immunisation, management of communicable and non-communicable disease at the community level, health-systems strengthening, and the translation of clinical evidence into policy and service delivery. The discipline emphasises measurement, surveillance data, health-facility data quality, knowledge-attitude-practice surveys, and outcome evaluation, to identify needs, target interventions, and assess impact. Ethical considerations, equity, and the organisation of care for underserved populations are recurring concerns. Work in this area frequently centres on low- and middle-income settings, where health-system capacity, workforce, and infrastructure shape outcomes. Public Health International publishes peer-reviewed research reflecting these themes, including school-based oral health programmes, community health needs assessment, data quality in public health facilities, provider knowledge and attitudes toward reproductive and cardiovascular care, population-based cancer-screening planning, tobacco control, and the effects of supply-chain disruption on health services, illustrating how medical expertise is mobilised for the health of whole populations.

Research published in this journal

12 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

2017

Ethics and Health

Mango LucioCorresponding author
Nuclear Medicine, S. Camillo-Forlanini General Hospital, Rome – Italy
Public Health International Cited by 4 doi:10.14302/issn.2641-4538.jphi-17-1839

How this research is being cited

The 12 articles above have been cited 33 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

A sample of recent works citing this journal's research on Medical Public Health, linking to each citing work.

Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in Public Health International (ISSN 2641-4538).

Journal editorial board
Javad Javan-Noughabi · United Kingdom Evelyn O Talbott · United States Zainab Taha · United Arab Emirates

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