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.
From Smoking to Vaping: What does Judaism have to Say?
Community Health Needs Assessment in Urban Communities in Kigali City In Rwanda: A Cluster-Randomized Trial
Users Perception and Factors Affecting Data Quality in Nyarugenge Public Health Facility, Rwanda
Knowledge and Attitudes of Heath Care Providers towards induced abortion in the City of Kigali
Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices about Cardiovascular Diseases among Adult Patients Attending Public Health Centers in Kigali city, Rwanda
Use of Tactile Contact Accompanying Health Promotion Messages During Routine Health & Physical Examinations: A Technique for Improving Compliance
Toward Better Care for Sickle Cell Disease in Nigeria: A Review of Challenges and Interventions
Ethics and Health
Building on Success in Tobacco Control: A Roadmap Towards Tobacco-Free Oman (Perspective Review)
A Roadmap to Developing a Population-Based Colorectal Cancer Screening Program in Oman
Impact of COVID-19 on Supply Chains in Zimbabwe
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.
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2026 · BMJ Open Quality
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2026 · Journal of Transport and Supply Chain Management
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2025 · Tobacco Prevention & Cessation
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2025 · Journal of Religion and Health
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2025 · Asian Pacific Journal of Reproduction
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2025 · Teaching and learning in nursing
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2025 · Heliyon
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2025 · Teaching and Learning in Nursing
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