Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal

Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal is the flagship public health periodical of the World Health Organization's Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean. Founded in 1995 and edited in Cairo, it prints research and reviews on the health problems of the Region's 21 member states and the occupied Palestinian territory, and its 2025 Journal Impact Factor is 1.9.《东地中海健康杂志》是世界卫生组织东地中海区域办事处的旗舰公共卫生期刊。该刊 1995 年创办，编辑部设在开罗，刊载有关该区域 21 个成员国与巴勒斯坦被占领土卫生问题的研究与综述，2025 年期刊影响因子为 1.9。

Scope

• The stated mission is to improve health in the Eastern Mediterranean Region by publishing and publicising quality health research and information, with emphasis on public health and on the Region's strategic health priorities.该刊声明的使命是通过出版与传播高质量的健康研究和信息来改善东地中海区域的健康状况，重点落在公共卫生与该区域的战略卫生重点上。

• Three aims follow from that mission, the first being to advance public health knowledge, policy, practice and education across the countries of the Region.这一使命引出三项宗旨，其一是推进区域内各国公共卫生的知识，政策，实践与教育。

• The second is to give policy-makers, researchers and practitioners evidence they can act on. The third keeps health professionals current on developments in public health, with special reference to the Region.其二是为政策制定者，研究者与从业者提供可以据以行动的证据。其三是让卫生专业人员及时了解公共卫生领域的新进展，尤其着眼于本区域。

• Priority is given to work on strengthening health systems, so that financing, workforce and service delivery questions reach the pages alongside clinical findings.卫生系统强化被列为优先方向，筹资，人力与服务提供的问题因此与临床发现一同出现在版面上。

• Emergency preparedness and response also hold a standing place, a choice that reflects a Region where conflict and displacement repeatedly test the delivery of care.突发事件防范与应对同样占有一席之地，这一取舍映照出一个冲突与流离失所反复考验医疗服务的区域。

• Communicable disease control is a fourth priority, covering outbreak surveillance, tuberculosis, hepatitis and vaccine-preventable infections as they present in individual countries.传染病控制是第四项优先方向，涵盖暴发监测，结核病，肝炎与疫苗可预防感染在各国的具体表现。

• Noncommunicable diseases and mental health make up the fifth, with diabetes, hypertension, tobacco use and cancer registration among the subjects that recur across volumes.非传染性疾病与精神健康构成第五项，糖尿病，高血压，烟草使用与肿瘤登记是各卷反复出现的题目。

• Reproductive health, maternal and newborn care, child health and nutrition complete the list of priority areas set out by the Office.生殖健康，孕产妇与新生儿保健，儿童健康连同营养，补足了办事处列出的优先方向清单。

• Beyond that list, the journal states that it publishes original peer-reviewed research and reviews in all areas of public health of relevance to the Eastern Mediterranean Region.在这一清单之外，该刊声明刊载与东地中海区域相关的公共卫生各领域的原创同行评审研究与综述。

• Environmental and occupational health enters through the same public health remit, and the ranking category in which the title is placed names it explicitly.环境与职业健康经由同一公共卫生范畴进入刊物，该刊被归入的学科分区也明确点出了这一方向。

• Papers often rest on country-level survey and programme data, which suits readers who work inside ministries, district health services and teaching hospitals.许多论文以国别调查与项目数据为底，这与在部委，地区卫生机构与教学医院里工作的读者相合。

• Its declared readership runs from health professionals and teaching institutions to governmental and non-governmental organizations working in public health, inside the Region and outside it.该刊声明的读者从卫生专业人员与教学机构，延伸到在本区域内外从事公共卫生工作的政府与非政府组织。

• Every article carries abstracts in English, Arabic and French, so a single paper can be approached by three audiences that rarely read the same journals.每篇文章都附有英文，阿拉伯文与法文摘要，一篇论文因此可以面对三种很少读同一批期刊的读者。

• Short communications, editorials and commentary sit beside full research papers, giving the editorial team room to answer events in the Region without waiting for a long study.短篇报告，社论与评论与研究论文并列，编辑部由此得以较快回应该区域发生的事情，不必等一项长期研究收尾。

• The journal also carries the Office's own notices on public health developments, a function written into its aims rather than left to chance.刊物也登载办事处自身发布的公共卫生进展通报，这一职能写进了它的宗旨。

History

• The first volume appeared in 1995, when the Regional Office set up a periodical of its own to carry the health experience of its member states.第 1 卷于 1995 年问世，区域办事处由此办起一份自己的期刊，用来承载成员国的卫生经验。

• It was formed by merging two earlier Office titles, the Eastern Mediterranean Region epidemiological bulletin and an Arabic journal of health services for the Region, numbered 1014-2347 and 1014-9899.它由两份更早的办事处刊物合并而成，一份是《东地中海区域流行病学公报》，另一份是阿拉伯文的区域卫生服务杂志，刊号分别为 1014-2347 与 1014-9899。

• That double parentage explains the shape of the name, which the National Library of Medicine records in English, French and Arabic, and which the cover prints in the three languages side by side.这一双重来源解释了刊名的形态，美国国立医学图书馆以英文，法文与阿拉伯文三种文字著录该名，封面也把三种文字并排印出。

• Language policy followed the same pattern, since papers appear chiefly in English, some in Arabic and French, and abstracts are carried in all three.语言政策沿同一思路，论文以英文为主，也有阿拉伯文与法文之作，摘要三种文字齐备。

• Three numbers a year were issued at the start, a rhythm suited to a periodical that still had to build a supply of regional manuscripts.创刊时每年出版三期，这一节奏适合一份尚需积累区域稿件的刊物。

• Bimonthly publication followed and held through 2009, when the Office moved the title onto a monthly schedule that has continued since.此后改为双月刊并延续到 2009 年，2010 年起办事处把它改成月刊，这一月期保持至今。

• One volume now covers one year, and the twelve numbers of 2025 sit inside volume 31.现在一卷对应一年，2025 年的十二期都在第 31 卷之内。

• The place of publication moved as well, with Alexandria recorded in the 1995 imprint and Cairo from 2000, the city where the Office has its headquarters.出版地也有过移动，1995 年的出版事项记亚历山大，2000 年起记开罗，办事处总部即设于后者。

• Index Medicus listed the title, and MEDLINE together with PubMed has indexed it in full since volume 5, number 1, of January 1999.《医学索引》曾收录该刊，MEDLINE 与 PubMed 自 1999 年 1 月第 5 卷第 1 期起全文收录。

• Both the Science Citation Index Expanded and the Social Sciences Citation Index cover it, a pairing that matches the clinical and the policy sides of public health.《科学引文索引扩展版》与《社会科学引文索引》同时收录该刊，这一组合与公共卫生兼具临床与政策两面相符。

• The 2025 Journal Impact Factor is 1.9 and the five-year figure 2.3, with a Journal Citation Indicator of 0.48.2025 年期刊影响因子为 1.9，五年影响因子为 2.3，期刊引文指标为 0.48。

• Category ranks for the same year place it at 128 of 194 in health care sciences and services, 85 of 125 in health policy and services, and 260 of 443 in public, environmental and occupational health.同一年的学科排名分别是卫生保健与服务第 128 位（共 194 种），卫生政策与服务第 85 位（共 125 种），公共卫生，环境与职业卫生第 260 位（共 443 种）。

• All three sit in the third quartile, and the citation count behind them is 3394, drawn from 63 articles in the year, with a cited half-life of 7.3 years.三项均落在第三象限，其后的被引总数为 3394 次，来自当年 63 篇论文，被引半衰期为 7.3 年。

• Open access is close to total, since 99.6 per cent of the 2025 output was gold, which matches the free full text offered on the Office's website.开放获取近乎彻底，2025 年产出中 99.6% 为金色开放获取，这与办事处网站提供的免费全文一致。

• The impact factor stood at 1.628 in 2021, rose to 2.087 in 2022, fell to 1.7 in 2023 and has held at 1.9 in 2024 and 2025.影响因子 2021 年为 1.628，2022 年升至 2.087，2023 年回落到 1.7，2024 年与 2025 年均为 1.9。

Editors

• Editorial work is carried out at the Regional Office in Cairo, and the correspondence address given for the title is Post Office Box 7608 in Nasr City.编辑工作设在开罗的区域办事处，该刊登记的通讯地址是纳赛尔城 7608 号信箱。

• An editor-in-chief heads the journal, and the day-to-day handling of manuscripts is done by an editorial team inside the Office's publishing programme.刊物由主编主持，稿件的日常处理由办事处出版部门内的编辑团队承担。

• Manuscripts are submitted and tracked through Editorial Manager, the online system used for the title, which gives every submission its own number.稿件经 Editorial Manager 系统投递与追踪，每份投稿都会得到一个编号。

• The journal describes itself as internationally peer reviewed, and papers go to outside specialists before the editorial office reaches a decision.该刊自称经过国际同行评审，论文在编辑部作出决定之前会送给外部专家评议。

• Reviewers are chosen for subject knowledge and for familiarity with the country or programme a paper describes, since regional relevance is the first test of fit.审稿人按学科专长与对论文所述国家或项目的熟悉程度来选，区域相关性是判断合适与否的第一道关口。

• The board draws its members from public health academics, programme managers and practitioners, and the spread of countries on it is meant to match the Region the journal covers.编委会成员来自公共卫生学者，项目管理者和从业者，其国别分布力求与该刊覆盖的区域相称。

• Article categories include original research, reviews, short communications, editorials and commentary, each with its own length and reference limits in the instructions to authors.文章类型包括原创研究，综述，短篇报告，社论与评论，各类在投稿须知里各有篇幅与参考文献上限。

• English is the working language of submission, while Arabic and French manuscripts are also taken, and the three-language abstract is handled by the Office's language services.投稿以英文为工作语言，阿拉伯文与法文稿件同样接收，三语摘要由办事处的语言部门处理。

• Supplements have appeared beside the regular numbers, and volume 12 in 2006 carried two of them, catalogued as 12 Suppl 1 and 12 Suppl 2 in the citation records.正刊之外另有增刊，其中 2006 年第 12 卷一次出了两册，在文献里分别著录为 12 Suppl 1 与 12 Suppl 2。

• Accepted text is copy-edited to WHO house style, and authors see proofs before an issue closes, a routine that keeps a monthly schedule with an office-based staff.录用稿件按世界卫生组织的体例做文字编辑，作者在当期定稿前会看到校样，一份月刊的节奏即由这样的常设流程维持。