The Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Health Equity has partnered with the American Journal of Public Health to publish an online-only, open access issue on Health Equity. This issue brings focus to the health equity issues specific to our nation's Veterans. All articles are available free to the public and online only. Click the link above to view the issue in its entirety. To learn more about health equity issues among Veterans and the articles in this issue, view this short video.

Current Issue - Supplement 4 2014 - Health Equity

2013 Impact Factor Released

The American Journal of Public Health continues to be a leader in the field of Public Health, publishing quality research that is highly cited. Our 2013 impact factor is 4.229, an increase over last year, and ranks the journal #4 out of 136 titles in the Public, Environmental and Occupational Health category in the Social Sciences Citation Index and #14 of 160 titles in the same category for the Science Index.

An Interview With Dr. John Ruffin

Dr. John Ruffin, Director of the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, was interveiwed by Dr. Stephen Thomas and Dr. Sandra Quinn of the University of Maryland Center for Health Equity and Guest Editors of this theme issue. Dr. Ruffin discusses a variety of issues related to the importance of including minorities in research, the changing demographics of the US population, new challenges for researchers, the value of community participation, and how minority inclusion research is "not one size fits all."

Click on the links below to download and listen to select clips from the interview or to view the full interview transcript.

Clip #1: Researchers and Recruitment of Minorities.
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Clip #2: Inclusion and Heterogeneity of Ethnic Populations
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Clip #3: Reasons Why Minorities Don't Want to Participate in Research Studies
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Clip #4: Community-Based Research
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Clip #5: The Importance of Community Involvement
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To view a pdf of the full transcript, click here. or right click the link to download the file.


 

Online-only and Open Access - in our continuing effort to expand access to vital public health science and information, theAmerican Journal of Public Health (AJPH)presents this online-only, open access supplement issue containing Spanish and English versions of articles. These articles, produced in collaboration with the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), reflect the strong bond between the American Public Health Association (APHA) and the PAHO in their efforts to “address emerging threats to the public’s health through a variety of measures that help the field better understand the best science, define effective policies, and support programs that empower people and institutions to act,” says Editorial authors Dr. John Andrus, Dr. Georges Benjamin, and Dr. Jeffrey Wilson. Regarding this special issue, they continue, “Our joint initiative is designed to expand access to the types of peer-reviewed articles that delve into the heart of solutions that can be applied in communities across the world.”

The theme of National Public Health Week is “Start Here,” and this supplement issue represents the first in an annual series of publications showcase the APHA–PAHO collaboration. Each year, as articles are published in English in AJPH, a joint team from AJPH and PAHO will identify priority articles for translation by PAHO Translation services and staff. Translated articles are then published in issues of the Pan American Journal of Public Health, and then consolidated into a single issue by AJPH each year and published with the English versions as an official supplement. This supplement contains the first three articles translated as part of this collaboration and partnership.

As Dr. Mary Northridge and Dr. Kenneth Rochel de Camargo state in their Editor’s Choice column, “The AJPH Editorial Board has long sought to translate AJPH papers to Spanish and other languages . . . to ensure its content is not only read by public health enthusiasts around the globe but also acted upon wherever warranted. How much impact can 3 research papers make to the realization of this vision? As per the theme of National Public Health Week, . . . we “Start Here.” Where we end up depends upon the evolving goals of this partnership and the collective resolve to achieve them.”

To view the supplement in its entirety, click on the link above