Preventive Medicine

Preventive Medicine is a monthly journal founded in 1972 by Ernst Wynder and published by Elsevier.《Preventive Medicine》是 Ernst Wynder 于 1972 年创办的月刊，由 Elsevier 出版。

It publishes original work on the science, research and practice of disease prevention, health promotion and public health policy.刊物发表疾病预防、健康促进与公共卫生政策的科学、研究与实践方面的原创成果。

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

• Primary prevention is the journal's core subject, and papers address risk factors before disease appears rather than treatment after diagnosis.一级预防是刊物的核心题目，论文讨论疾病出现之前的危险因素，而不是确诊之后的治疗。
• Screening programmes are evaluated through uptake, accuracy, overdiagnosis and the balance of benefit and harm.筛查项目通过参与率、准确性、过度诊断以及利弊权衡得到评估。
• Vaccination research covers coverage, hesitancy, delivery and the population effects of immunisation policy.疫苗接种研究涵盖覆盖率、犹豫、接种实施以及免疫政策的人群效果。
• Tobacco control is a long-standing strand, from cessation trials to taxation, advertising restrictions and e-cigarette policy.烟草控制是长期主线，从戒烟试验到税收、广告限制与电子烟政策。
• Diet, physical activity and obesity are studied with behavioural, environmental and policy explanations held together.饮食、身体活动与肥胖研究把行为、环境与政策解释放在一起。
• Alcohol and other substance use appear as preventable exposures, with attention to marketing and availability.酒精与其他物质使用作为可预防的暴露出现，关注营销与可获得性。
• Social determinants are examined explicitly, including income, education, race and ethnicity, and neighbourhood conditions.社会决定因素得到明确考察，包括收入、教育、种族与族裔以及邻里条件。
• Health equity work asks who benefits from a prevention programme and who is left outside it.健康公平研究追问谁从预防项目中受益，谁被留在项目之外。
• Implementation and dissemination research examines how effective interventions reach practice and how fidelity is maintained.实施与传播研究考察有效干预如何进入实践，以及保真度如何维持。
• Health services questions include preventive visits, immunisation delivery in primary care and the cost of prevention programmes.卫生服务问题包括预防性就诊、初级保健中的免疫接种以及预防项目的成本。
• Environmental and occupational exposures are treated as prevention targets when they can be modified by policy.环境与职业暴露在可被政策改变时被当作预防目标。
• Methods papers cover causal inference, simulation modelling and the analysis of large administrative or survey datasets.方法学论文涵盖因果推断、模拟建模以及大型行政或调查数据的分析。
• The journal states a preference for insightful observational studies, new angles on existing hypotheses and large randomised trials.刊物明确偏好有洞见的观察性研究、对既有假设的新角度以及样本充足的随机试验。
• Impartial systematic reviews are considered, provided that the review answers a question of practical relevance.公正的系统综述在能够回答具有实际意义的问题时被考虑。
• Its open access companion, Preventive Medicine Reports, carries narrower studies that form the building blocks for the main journal.其开放获取姊妹刊《Preventive Medicine Reports》承载较窄小的研究，构成主刊的基础材料。
• Firearm injury prevention appears as a public health problem, with studies of storage, policy and community programmes.枪支伤害预防作为公共卫生问题出现，涉及存放、政策与社区项目研究。
• Digital and mobile health interventions are evaluated for reach, engagement and effect on preventive behaviour.数字与移动健康干预通过可及范围、参与程度以及对预防行为的效果得到评估。

• Cost-effectiveness modelling of screening and vaccination programmes is published where it informs policy choices.筛查与疫苗接种项目的成本效果建模在能够为政策选择提供依据时被发表。
• Neighbourhood and built-environment measures such as walkability and green space are linked to preventive activity.步行适宜性与绿地等邻里和建成环境指标与预防性活动相联系。

History

• Ernst Wynder founded the journal in 1972, at a time when prevention was a minor concern in medical publishing.Ernst Wynder 于 1972 年创办该刊，当时预防在医学出版中还只占很小位置。
• Wynder had built his reputation on studies linking smoking to lung cancer, and the journal carried that preventive outlook from the start.Wynder 因把吸烟与肺癌联系起来的研究而知名，刊物从一开始就带有这种预防取向。
• It has been published by Elsevier, through its Academic Press imprint, and appears monthly with a volume number for each issue.刊物由 Elsevier 通过其 Academic Press 品牌出版，按月发行，每期编有一个卷号。
• Preventive Medicine Reports was added as an open access companion, and it shares the editorial office with the main title.《Preventive Medicine Reports》作为开放获取姊妹刊加入，与主刊共用编辑部。
• Luisa N. Borrell of the City University of New York is the current editor-in-chief, with Ryan D. Burns of the University of Utah as deputy.纽约城市大学的 Luisa N. Borrell 是现任主编，犹他大学的 Ryan D. Burns 担任副主编。
• Impact factors were 4.018 in 2021, 4.637 in 2022, 4.3 in 2023, 3.2 in 2024 and 3.2 in 2025.影响因子在 2021 年为 4.018，2022 年为 4.637，2023 年为 4.3，2024 年为 3.2，2025 年为 3.2。
• The 2025 report counted 20,853 citations, 131 articles and 147 citable items.2025 年报告统计被引 20853 次，论文 131 篇，可引用条目 147 项。
• About 30 percent of recent content is gold open access, and the journal is subscription based with an open access option.近期内容约有 30% 为金色开放获取，刊物以订阅为主并提供开放获取选项。
• The title is indexed in MEDLINE and PubMed, Science Citation Index Expanded and Scopus, among other databases.该刊被 MEDLINE 与 PubMed、科学引文索引扩展版以及 Scopus 等数据库收录。
• It appears in two JCR categories, general and internal medicine and public, environmental and occupational health.该刊出现在两个 JCR 类别中，即综合与内科学，以及公共卫生、环境与职业健康。
• The editorial office at McGill University in Montreal handles the scientific side, with managing editors based there.位于蒙特利尔的麦吉尔大学编辑部负责科学事务，执行编辑也在那里工作。
• Volumes are numbered one per issue, and the journal passed its two hundredth volume in the middle of the present decade.刊物每期编一个卷号，并在本世纪二十年代中期越过了第二百卷。

Editors

• Luisa N. Borrell, a social epidemiologist at the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health, works on racism, ethnicity and health inequities.纽约城市大学公共卫生学院的社会流行病学家 Luisa N. Borrell 研究种族主义、族裔与健康不平等。
• Ryan D. Burns of the University of Utah is deputy editor and works on adolescent health, physical activity and school health.犹他大学的 Ryan D. Burns 是副主编，研究青少年健康、身体活动与学校健康。
• Andrew Arthur and Alissa Moore, both at McGill University, are scientific managing editors.麦吉尔大学的 Andrew Arthur 与 Alissa Moore 担任科学执行编辑。
• Darren Brenner of the University of Calgary handles cancer surveillance and screening, and Jeffrey Scherrer of Saint Louis University handles pharmacoepidemiology.卡尔加里大学的 Darren Brenner 负责癌症监测与筛查，圣路易斯大学的 Jeffrey Scherrer 负责药物流行病学。
• Sandra Echeverria of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro works on Latino health and social determinants.北卡罗来纳大学格林斯伯勒分校的 Sandra Echeverria 研究拉丁裔健康与社会决定因素。
• Zeev Rosberger of McGill works on HPV vaccination and psychosocial oncology, and Katarzyna Wyka of CUNY works on epidemiology and biostatistics.麦吉尔大学的 Zeev Rosberger 研究 HPV 疫苗与心理社会肿瘤学，纽约城市大学的 Katarzyna Wyka 研究流行病学与生物统计。
• Stephen Higgins of the University of Vermont, a long-standing tobacco researcher, is among the associate editors.佛蒙特大学的 Stephen Higgins 是资深烟草研究者，也是副编辑之一。
• The board numbers 48 editors and advisers from 10 countries, with 25 in the United States and 6 each in Canada and China.编委会由来自 10 个国家的 48 位编辑与顾问组成，其中 25 位在美国，加拿大与中国各 6 位。
• Board members also work in Spain, Australia, Germany, France, Italy, Switzerland and Taiwan.编委还分布在西班牙、澳大利亚、德国、法国、意大利、瑞士与中国台湾。
• Reviewers are asked to weigh whether a study could change prevention practice, not only whether its statistics are sound.审稿人须权衡研究是否可能改变预防实践，而不只看统计是否成立。
• Qihong Deng of Zhengzhou University and Jing Huang of Peking University bring environmental epidemiology and air pollution research.郑州大学的 Qihong Deng 与北京大学的 Jing Huang 带来环境流行病学与空气污染研究。
• Daniel Kim of Northeastern University works on social epidemiology, and Idris Guessous of the University of Geneva works on population screening.东北大学的 Daniel Kim 研究社会流行病学，日内瓦大学的 Idris Guessous 研究人群筛查。