Bulletin of the World Health Organization

The Bulletin of the World Health Organization is a fully open-access public health journal with a special focus on low- and middle-income countries. It was first published in 1948 and, since then, has sought to make its contents as widely available as possible. There are no article-processing charges associated with submitting to or publishing in the Bulletin. With a Clarivate impact factor of 8.4, the Bulletin is one of the top fifteen journals in the field of public and environmental health.

All peer-reviewed articles and the journal archives are indexed, including in the Web of Science and MEDLINE, and are freely available under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 IGO license (CC BY 3.0 IG0).

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