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Public Health Policy

Public health policy comprises the decisions, regulations, and resource allocations enacted by governments and other authorities to protect and improve the health of populations. Grounded in epidemiological evidence and economic and ethical analysis, it sets priorities, structures health systems, regulates risks, an…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 12 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 25× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 2641-4538 🗓 Reviewed July 2026

Overview

Public health policy comprises the decisions, regulations, and resource allocations enacted by governments and other authorities to protect and improve the health of populations. Grounded in epidemiological evidence and economic and ethical analysis, it sets priorities, structures health systems, regulates risks, and directs interventions toward disease prevention, equitable access, and the reduction of health disparities. The policy process spans agenda-setting, formulation, implementation, and evaluation, and engages multiple stakeholders across health, education, environment, and social sectors. Substantive areas include tobacco and substance control, medicines regulation and the problem of self-medication, communicable-disease and outbreak response, environmental and waterborne-disease management, and the protection of marginalised and vulnerable groups. Organisational design, governance, and the alignment of institutional structures with health values are recognised determinants of whether policy achieves its intended outcomes. Ethical frameworks inform decisions about resource distribution, autonomy, and the duties of the state to its population. Much of the applied literature addresses low- and middle-income contexts, where policy must reconcile constrained resources with substantial need. Public Health International publishes peer-reviewed research engaging these themes, including tobacco-control roadmaps, self-medication in pregnancy, community health needs assessment, governance and structural alignment in public-service models, environmental and waterborne-disease strategy, and health ethics, reflecting policy as the lever that translates evidence into population-level action.

Research published in this journal

12 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

2017

Ethics and Health

Mango LucioCorresponding author
Nuclear Medicine, S. Camillo-Forlanini General Hospital, Rome – Italy
Public Health International Cited by 4 doi:10.14302/issn.2641-4538.jphi-17-1839

How this research is being cited

The 12 articles above have been cited 25 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

A sample of recent works citing this journal's research on Public Health Policy, linking to each citing work.

Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in Public Health International (ISSN 2641-4538).

Journal editorial board
Javad Javan-Noughabi · United Kingdom Evelyn O Talbott · United States Zainab Taha · United Arab Emirates

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