AIMS AND SCOPE
Aims and Scope
Medicine and Public Health is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access journal published by the AFM Publishing House on behalf of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Krakow University. The primary aim of the journal is to provide an international platform for clinicians, public health specialists, and healthcare researchers to disseminate rigorous research and advance evidence-based practice.
The journal publishes methodologically sound, intellectually rigorous, and socially impactful research contributing to medical sciences, health systems, and global public health. It emphasizes the interdisciplinary intersections between clinical medicine, health policy, epidemiology, health management, and preventive healthcare.
Scope of the Journal
The journal welcomes original, review, comparative, theoretical, empirical, and interdisciplinary contributions in the following fields:
Clinical Medicine & Internal Specialties
General and Internal Medicine, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Systems, Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Endocrinology and Metabolic Disorders, Respiratory Medicine, Hematology, Rheumatology, Nephrology, Infectious Diseases, Oncology, and Clinical Immunology
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Public health, healthcare systems, health policy, healthcare organisation, quality of care, patient safety, health promotion, system performance, nutrition, food studies, functional foods, and biologically active compounds with beneficial effects on human health.
Research Profile
Research Profile Medicine and Public Health prioritizes scholarly work that combines methodological rigour with sound theoretical foundations and clear clinical, epidemiological, or healthcare relevance. The journal welcomes quantitative, qualitative, mixed-methods, comparative, and evidence-based policy research, as well as high-value clinical case reports and comprehensive reviews.
The journal’s profile focuses on clinical medicine, epidemiology, health services research, healthcare quality and patient safety, environmental and occupational health physiology, applied medical ethics, and emerging healthcare technologies (including digital health and artificial intelligence applications in clinical practice).
Types of Contributions
Commentary
Manuscripts Outside the Journal’s Scope
The journal does not normally consider manuscripts that are purely descriptive, lack a clearly defined research problem, are not grounded in relevant scholarly literature, or do not provide broader analytical, theoretical, practical, or policy implications. Local or institutional case descriptions may be considered only if they offer conclusions of wider relevance to the journal’s readership.
Manuscripts that do not comply with the journal’s ethical, methodological, formal, or editorial standards may be rejected at the initial editorial screening stage.
Vol. 4 (2026)
Published: 2026-08-10
eISSN: 2956-9443
English