2017
Overview
Public health and epidemiology, health services research, and economics together form a multidisciplinary field concerned with understanding, protecting, and improving the health of populations and with the organization, delivery, and financing of healthcare. Epidemiology provides the methods for studying the distribution and determinants of health and disease in populations, identifying risk factors, and evaluating interventions. Health services research examines how care is organized, accessed, and delivered, and how its quality, safety, and outcomes can be improved. Health economics applies economic principles to analyze the costs, efficiency, and value of health interventions and systems, informing decisions about resource allocation under finite budgets. Integrating these perspectives allows for a comprehensive analysis of health needs, the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of programs and policies, and the equitable distribution of resources across communities. This combined approach supports evidence-based policymaking, the planning of prevention and treatment services, and efforts to address disparities in health and access. Within public health, it bridges the measurement of population health with the practical and economic considerations of building effective health systems. This page gathers peer-reviewed, open-access research relevant to public health, epidemiology, health services research, and health economics.
Research published in this journal
1 peer-reviewed article, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.
How this research is being cited
The 1 article above has been cited 4 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.
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2023 ·
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Rebecca Olive et al. · 2021 ·
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2021 · Sport Education and Society
A sample of recent works citing this journal's research on Public Health and Epidemiology Health Services Research and Economics, linking to each citing work.