Medicine and Public Health

Aims and Scope

Medicine and Public Health is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access journal published by 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:

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, systematic reviews, and meta-analyses.

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

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 biomedical literature, or do not provide broader clinical, epidemiological, practical, or health policy implications. Local or institutional case descriptions may be considered only if they offer conclusions of wider relevance to international medical practice.

Manuscripts that do not comply with the journal’s ethical (Declaration of Helsinki / ICMJE), methodological, formal, or editorial standards may be rejected at the initial desk review stage.