Population Health Metrics

Population Health Metrics (commonly abbreviated as ''Popul. Health Metr.', ISSN 1478-7954) is a peer-reviewed journal on the measurement of population health published by BioMed Central. It is fully open access, was founded in 2003, and appears as a continuously published journal.Population Health Metrics（常用缩写 Popul. Health Metr.，ISSN 1478-7954）是生物医学中心出版社（BioMed Central / BMC）出版的人群健康测量领域同行评审学术期刊，采用全开放获取模式，2003 年创刊，出版频率为连续出版（continuous）。

Scope

The journal addresses concepts, methods, ethical applications and results in the measurement of the health of populations. This includes the measurement and valuation of health states, summary measures of population health levels, inequality in population health, descriptive epidemiology at the population level, burden of disease and injury analysis, disease and risk-factor modelling for populations, and the comparative assessment of health risks at the population level. The journal provides a platform for researchers in all these areas to share their findings with the global research community.该刊关注人群健康测量相关的概念、方法、伦理应用与结果，涵盖以下方面：健康状态的测量与赋值、人群健康水平的综合测量指标、人群健康的不平等性、人群层面的描述流行病学、疾病与伤害的疾病负担分析、针对人群的疾病与危险因素建模，以及人群层面健康风险的比较评估。期刊为上述领域的研究者提供一个向全球研究共同体共享成果的平台。^[1]

• Measurement and valuation of health states: concepts and measurement techniques for healthy life expectancy, disability weights, health utilities and multidimensional health indices.健康状态的测量与赋值： 健康期望寿命、疾病负担权重（disability weight）、健康效用与多维健康指数等概念与测度技术。
• Summary measures of population health: the construction and comparison of composite indicators such as mortality, morbidity, life expectancy, infant mortality and child mortality.人群健康的综合指标： 死亡率、发病率、期望寿命、婴儿与儿童死亡率等人群健康综合测量指标的构建与比较。
• Inequality in health: the measurement and decomposition of health disparities by socioeconomic status, sex, region or ethnicity.健康不平等性： 按社会经济地位、性别、地区或族群分解的健康差异测量与分解方法。
• Disease burden and risk modelling: measurement and attribution of disease burden, together with population-level models of disease and risk factors and comparative risk assessment.疾病负担与风险建模： 疾病负担的测量与归因，以及人群层面的疾病与危险因素模型、风险的可比评估。
• Ethics and policy application: ethical considerations in health measurement, and the translation of measurement results into public health policy and resource allocation.伦理与政策应用： 健康测量中的伦理考量，以及测量结果向公共卫生政策与资源配置的转化。

As a fully open-access journal, every article is freely available from the publisher's website, and the readership spans research communities in public health, epidemiology, health economics and health policy.作为完全开放获取期刊，所有文章均可经出版商网站免费获取，读者覆盖公共卫生、流行病学、卫生经济学与卫生政策等研究群体。

History

• Founding (2003): the journal was founded by BioMed Central in 2003 within the BMC journal portfolio, with the open-access model established from the outset.创刊（2003年）： 期刊于 2003 年由 BioMed Central 创刊，出版载体为 BMC 系列期刊平台，开放获取模式自创刊起即已确立。
• Rapid rise in impact (2010s): as population health measurement gained prominence in global burden-of-disease research, the journal was indexed in SSCI within the public, environmental and occupational health category, with its impact factor rising from below 1 to above 2.影响因子快速攀升（2010年代）： 随着人群健康测量在全球疾病负担研究中的地位上升，期刊被 SSCI 收录并进入公共卫生、环境卫生与职业卫生类别，影响因子由不足 1 升至 2 以上。
• Fluctuation in the 2020s: the impact factor fell to around 2.5 in 2024 before recovering to roughly 3.3 in 2025.影响因子回落（2020年代）： 2024 年影响因子回落至约 2.5，在 2025 年回升至约 3.3。

Editors

The journal is led by two Editors-in-Chief, both prominent scholars in public health and global health, with an international editorial board spanning the methodological subdisciplines of population health measurement.期刊实行双主编制，由公共卫生与全球健康领域知名学者共同担任执行主编，编委会成员来自多个国家，覆盖人群健康测量的各个方法学分支。^[2]

• Editors-in-Chief: Christopher J. L. Murray and Alan D. Lopez.执行主编： Christopher J. L. Murray 与 Alan D. Lopez。
• Editorial board: the full list of board members and recent board changes are published on the journal's official website.编委阵容： 完整编委会名单与近期编委变动见期刊官网。