Annali di Igiene, Medicina Preventiva e di Comunità is an international, multidisciplinary, full open access and peer-reviewed journal. It publishes original researches, reviews, rapid public health reports, and commentaries in the fields of preventive medicine, environmental health, and health policy.
Its mission is to join COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) https://publicationethics.org/ and ICMJE (Recommentations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals. Updates April 2025) https://www.icmje.org/icmje-recommendations.pdf to ensure the fairness of published articles.
Its target are public health researchers and practitioners and those who plan, manage and deliver public health services. It will also be of interest to anyone involved in provision of public health programmes, the care of populations or communities and those who contribute to the Public Health Service in any way.
Annali di Igiene considers submission of contributions on any aspect of public health across. These include:
• Public health practice and impact
• Applied epidemiology
• Need or impact assessments
• Health service effectiveness, management and re-design
• Health protection including control of communicable diseases
• Health promotion and diseases prevention
• Evaluation of public health programmes or interventions
• Public health governance, audit and quality
• Public health laws and ethics
• Public health policy and comparisons
• Capacity in public health systems and workforce
• Public Health Nursing
• Environmental Health
• Engineering and Architecture for Public Health
The Editorial Committee will also consider articles on any issue relating indirectly to public health.