Journal of Urban Health

The Journal of Urban Health is a bimonthly journal of the New York Academy of Medicine, published by Springer and carrying the subtitle Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine.《Journal of Urban Health》是纽约医学科学院的双月刊，由 Springer 出版，副题为《纽约医学科学院通报》。

It publishes interdisciplinary evidence on the health of people in cities and on the health effects of urban policy and intervention.刊物发表关于城市居民健康以及城市政策与干预对健康影响的跨学科证据。

Its 2025 Journal Impact Factor is 3.2, with a five-year value of 4.3, and it ranks 68th among 336 titles in general and internal medicine.2025 年期刊影响因子为 3.2，五年影响因子为 4.3，在综合与内科学 336 种期刊中排第 68 位。

Scope

• Social determinants of urban health are the journal's central concern, from income and housing to education and employment.城市健康的社会决定因素是刊物的核心关切，从收入与住房到教育与就业。
• Neighbourhood effects are studied with attention to how place, segregation and disinvestment shape health over time.邻里效应研究关注地点、隔离与投资不足如何长期塑造健康。
• The built environment appears through walkability, transit, green space, housing quality and exposure to traffic.建成环境通过步行适宜性、公共交通、绿地、住房质量与交通暴露出现。
• Environmental exposures are treated as urban questions, including air pollution, heat, noise and industrial land use.环境暴露被当作城市问题处理，包括空气污染、高温、噪声与工业用地。
• Health equity and structural racism are examined through measurement, policy analysis and the distribution of services.健康公平与结构性种族主义通过测量、政策分析与服务分布得到考察。
• Violence and safety are covered as public health problems, with firearm injury and community violence among the recurring subjects.暴力与安全作为公共卫生问题得到讨论，枪支伤害与社区暴力是反复出现的主题。
• Substance use and overdose appear in their urban setting, including harm reduction and treatment access in city neighbourhoods.物质使用与过量在城市情境中出现，包括城市街区中的减害与治疗可及性。
• Mental health is studied alongside physical health, with attention to stress, isolation and access to care in dense environments.心理健康与身体健康并列研究，关注高密度环境中的压力、孤立与照护可及性。
• Migration and displacement are addressed through work on immigrants, refugees and gentrification.迁移与流离通过移民、难民与绅士化研究得到讨论。
• Climate adaptation enters through heat vulnerability, flooding and the uneven capacity of cities to protect residents.气候适应通过高温脆弱性、洪涝以及城市保护居民能力的不均衡进入刊物。
• Health services research examines primary care, emergency care and public health capacity in urban systems.卫生服务研究考察城市系统中的初级保健、急诊服务与公共卫生能力。
• Urban policy evaluation is published when a programme or regulation can be linked to a measurable health outcome.当项目或法规能与可测量的健康结局相联系时，城市政策评估会被发表。
• Methods papers describe geospatial analysis, multilevel modelling and the use of administrative data for urban questions.方法学论文介绍地理空间分析、多层建模以及行政数据在城市问题中的使用。
• Reviews and perspectives are accepted, and the journal also publishes executive summaries of reports and global meetings.综述与观点文章被接受，刊物还发表报告与全球会议的执行摘要。
• The audience spans public health, medicine, planning, sociology and city government, and writing is expected to travel across those fields.读者横跨公共卫生、医学、规划、社会学与市政府，文字需能在这些领域之间通行。
• Food environments and food insecurity are studied as urban exposures, including access to affordable and healthy food.食物环境与食物不安全作为城市暴露得到研究，包括可负担健康食物的可及性。
• Administrative and sensor data are used to measure neighbourhood change, mobility and exposure at fine spatial resolution.行政数据与传感器数据被用于在精细空间尺度上测量邻里变化、移动性与暴露。

• Urban health surveillance, including city-level mortality and service-capacity indicators, appears in the journal.城市健康监测在刊物中出现，包括城市层面的死亡率与服务能力指标。

History

• The New York Academy of Medicine was founded in 1847 and published its Bulletin from 1925.纽约医学科学院成立于 1847 年，并从 1925 年起出版自己的学报。
• The Bulletin was relaunched as the Journal of Urban Health in 1998, keeping the academy's name in the subtitle.该学报于 1998 年改版为《Journal of Urban Health》，副题中保留科学院名称。
• Springer has published the journal since 2006, and the academy retains ownership and editorial direction.Springer 自 2006 年起出版该刊，科学院保留所有权与编辑方向。
• David Vlahov, formerly dean of the Yale School of Nursing, edited the journal for many years and is now editor emeritus.曾任耶鲁护理学院院长的 David Vlahov 长期主持该刊，现为名誉编辑。
• Usama Bilal and Ana Diez Roux of the Drexel Urban Health Collaborative are the current co-editors-in-chief.德雷塞尔大学城市健康协作组的 Usama Bilal 与 Ana Diez Roux 是现任共同主编。
• The managing editor and editorial coordinator work from the academy's office in New York.执行编辑与编辑协调员在科学院的纽约办公室工作。
• Impact factors moved from 3.671 in 2021 to 5.801 in 2022, then 4.3 in 2023, 4.1 in 2024 and 3.2 in 2025.影响因子从 2021 年的 3.671 升至 2022 年的 5.801，随后为 2023 年的 4.3，2024 年为 4.1，2025 年为 3.2。
• The 2025 report counted 6,263 citations, 80 articles and 88 citable items.2025 年报告统计被引 6263 次，论文 80 篇，可引用条目 88 项。
• About 37 percent of recent content is gold open access, and the journal offers open access publication against a charge.近期内容约有 37% 为金色开放获取，刊物在收取费用后提供开放获取出版。
• The title is indexed in MEDLINE and PubMed, Science Citation Index Expanded and Scopus.该刊被 MEDLINE 与 PubMed、科学引文索引扩展版以及 Scopus 收录。
• It ranks in two JCR categories, general and internal medicine and public, environmental and occupational health.该刊在两个 JCR 类别中排名，即综合与内科学，以及公共卫生、环境与职业健康。
• The journal has published continuously since 1998 and its volumes are numbered from the resumption of the title.该刊自 1998 年起连续出版，卷号从改名后的第一卷起算。

Editors

• Usama Bilal, an epidemiologist at Drexel, writes on urban health, cardiometabolic disease and policy.德雷塞尔大学的流行病学家 Usama Bilal 研究城市健康、心血管代谢疾病与政策。
• Ana Diez Roux, also at Drexel, is known for multilevel studies of neighbourhoods and health and for leading the SALURBAL project on Latin American cities.同样任职于德雷塞尔的 Ana Diez Roux 以邻里与健康的多层研究知名，并主持针对拉美城市的 SALURBAL 项目。
• David Vlahov, editor emeritus, built the journal's urban health portfolio over two decades.名誉编辑 David Vlahov 在二十年间建立了刊物的城市健康版图。
• Andrea Choi is managing editor, and Candace Moore is editorial coordinator at the New York Academy of Medicine.Andrea Choi 担任执行编辑，Candace Moore 是纽约医学科学院的编辑协调员。
• Jason Corburn of the University of California, Berkeley, works on healthy cities and informal settlements and sits on the board.加州大学伯克利分校的 Jason Corburn 研究健康城市与非正规住区，是编委之一。
• Steven Cummins of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine studies place-based interventions and health inequalities.伦敦卫生与热带医学院的 Steven Cummins 研究基于地点的干预与健康不平等。
• Waleska Caiaffa of the Federal University of Minas Gerais leads an urban health observatory in Belo Horizonte.米纳斯吉拉斯联邦大学的 Waleska Caiaffa 在贝洛奥里藏特主持城市健康观察站。
• Tolullah Oni of the University of Cambridge works on urban design, sustainability and health in African cities.剑桥大学的 Tolullah Oni 研究非洲城市的城市设计、可持续性与健康。
• Blessing Mberu of the African Population and Health Research Center in Nairobi and Alejandra Vives of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile extend the board to the global south.内罗毕非洲人口与健康研究中心的 Blessing Mberu 与智利天主教大学的 Alejandra Vives 把编委会延伸到全球南方。
• Josiah Rich of Brown University brings addiction medicine and incarceration health, and Daniel Webster of Johns Hopkins brings injury prevention.布朗大学的 Josiah Rich 带来成瘾医学与羁押健康研究，约翰斯·霍普金斯大学的 Daniel Webster 带来伤害预防。
• Further members work on environmental epidemiology, biostatistics, migration and urban governance across Asia, Europe and the Americas.其他编委在亚洲、欧洲与美洲从事环境流行病学、生物统计、迁移与城市治理研究。
• Zinzi Bailey of the University of Minnesota and Hannah Cooper of Emory University work on structural racism and substance use respectively.明尼苏达大学的 Zinzi Bailey 与埃默里大学的 Hannah Cooper 分别研究结构性种族主义与物质使用。
• Yoonhee Kim of the University of Tokyo and Xize Wang of the National University of Singapore extend the board into climate epidemiology and urban economics.东京大学的 Yoonhee Kim 与新加坡国立大学的 Xize Wang 把编委会延伸到气候流行病学与城市经济学。