International Journal of Epidemiology 2001;30:1226-1232
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Advocacy in public health: roles and challenges
Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Sydney 2006, Australia and VicHealth Centre for Tobacco Control, Carlton, Victoria, Australia. E-mail: Simonc@health.usyd.edu.au
Most public health researchers aspire to have their work published in high impact journals, reasoning that this is a key measure of their work's importance and influence. Publication in these journals accords peer recognition, enhances promotion and can attract media1 and hopefully public and political attention2 to research and its implications for public health. Currently, the epidemiology journal with the highest impact factor is the American Journal of Epidemiology with 3.870. The journal you are now reading scores 1.892. In wider public health, the peak journal is the Annual Review of Public Health with 4.524.3 Sixty-three per cent of the Institute of Scientific Information's indexed journals have impact factors below or equal to one,4 meaning that in these the average paper is cited less than once in the 2 years after publication.5
These depressingly modest numbers that define high impact in our field together with the global circulations of the
When is Advocacy for Change Justified?
Case 1: Gun control
Case 2: An ever downward spiralling road toll?
Information or Persuasion?
The Attribution Problem in Advocacy
Case Study: Banning smoking in workplaces
Concluding Remarks
References
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