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International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionJan 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ26853942 ↗
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The International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being is a quarterly peer-reviewed open access scientific journal covering the application of qualitative research to the study of health. It was established in 2006 and is published by Taylor & Francis. The editor-in-chief is Henrika Jormfeldt (Halmstad University). According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2017 impact factor of 1.094, ranking it 114th out of 156 journals in the category "Public, Environmental & Occupational Health".

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This entry incorporates text from “International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being” 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.