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Journal of Community Health

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 13, 2024
Entity authorityQ15755765 ↗
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The Journal of Community Health is a peer-reviewed public health journal covering community health which appears every two months. It was established in 1975 as a quarterly journal with Robert L. Kane as the founding editor-in-chief, and the current one is Pascal Imperato (SUNY Downstate Medical Center). According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2017 impact factor of 1.530.

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The public source identifies “Journal of Community Health” as journal. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Journal, Community and Health.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1975, 2017—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1975-01-01. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Journal, Community and Health providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Journal of Community Health” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.