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Public Health Policies and Education

Public Health Policies and Education is a research topic within General Health Professions. Science Explorer counts 17k research works in it since 1950. 19.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers covers a wide range of topics related to public health, health promotion, ethics, and the performance of health systems. It discusses the importance of population health, the role of public health workforce, ethical considerations in public health interventions, and the impact of social determinants on health equity. The cluster also emphasizes the need for policy attention to health promotion and the long-term view required for securing future health.

  • Public Health
  • Health Promotion
  • Ethics
  • Population Health
  • Policy
  • Health System Performance
  • Health Equity
  • Community Health
  • Public Health Workforce
  • Social Determinants of Health
Research works
17k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
19.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+24%
the tick is no change

This ranks research output and citation impact. It says nothing about the quality of diagnosis, treatment or care.

Which countries lead Public Health Policies and Education research?

By volume, the United States and Canada publish the most (1.5k and 174 works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 United States 1.5k works
  2. 2 Canada 174 works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 172 works
  4. 4 Australia 110 works
  5. 5 India 85 works
  6. 6 China 52 works
  7. 7 Germany 49 works
  8. 8 Brazil 44 works
  9. 9 Spain 42 works
  10. 10 France 41 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

United States: 65.9%Canada: 7.7%United Kingdom: 7.7%Australia: 4.9%6 others listed: 13.9%66%largest
United States1,485 · 65.9%Canada174 · 7.7%United Kingdom172 · 7.7%Australia110 · 4.9%6 others listed313 · 13.9%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Public Health Policies and Education research?

By volume in 2022–2025, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill publishes the most Public Health Policies and Education research, followed by Johns Hopkins University and Harvard University.

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 64 works
  2. 2 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 25 works
  3. 3 Harvard UniversityUnited States 15 works
  4. 4 Centers for Disease Control and PreventionUnited States 15 works
  5. 5 Boston UniversityUnited States 15 works
  6. 6 University of WashingtonUnited States 14 works
  7. 7 University of TorontoCanada 14 works
  8. 8 Northeastern UniversityUnited States 14 works
  9. 9 Arizona State UniversityUnited States 13 works
  10. 10 University of MichiganUnited States 13 works

Who are the leading researchers in Public Health Policies and Education?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Public Health Policies and Education include Martin McKee.

  1. 1 Martin McKee United Kingdom 5.4k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

Where is Public Health Policies and Education research done?

The largest centres of Public Health Policies and Education research in 2022–2025 are Washington D.C. (United States), Chapel Hill (United States), London (United Kingdom) and Atlanta (United States). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Chapel Hill, Atlanta and Washington D.C..

Largest cities, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Washington D.C. United States 90 works
  2. 2 Chapel Hill United States 65 works
  3. 3 London United Kingdom 61 works
  4. 4 Atlanta United States 60 works
  5. 5 New York United States 59 works
  6. 6 Boston United States 56 works
  7. 7 Baltimore United States 44 works
  8. 8 Chicago United States 39 works
  9. 9 Toronto Canada 38 works
  10. 10 Los Angeles United States 25 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Chapel HillUS · 65.0 works13×
  2. AtlantaUS · 59.6 works9.6×
  3. Washington D.C.US · 89.7 works8.5×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Public Health Policies and Education than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Public Health Policies and Education?

Among universities, judged by research, Johns Hopkins University, Georgetown University and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%mean 24.91%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →Johns Hopkins University: 26, 23.6%Georgetown University: 13, 28.7%University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: 64, 3.4%Boston University: 15, 11.7%Harvard University: 15, 31.0%University of Minnesota: 12, 29.6%Columbia University: 12, 28.9%University of Toronto: 14, 30.2%University of Utah: 9, 28.4%Washington University in St. Louis: 10, 33.6%Georgetown UniversityJohns Hopkins Univer…Boston UniversityUniversity of North …
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One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 63.823.6%8.7×26 +64.9%
2 Georgetown UniversityUnited States 62.528.7%14.7×13 +34.3%
3 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 60.03.4%13.6×64 +233.5%
4 Boston UniversityUnited States 55.011.7%10.9×15 +125.4%
5 Harvard UniversityUnited States 53.331.0%4.4×15 +49.3%
6 University of MinnesotaUnited States 46.329.6%5.8×12 +14.6%
7 Columbia UniversityUnited States 46.028.9%5.3×12 +12.3%
8 University of TorontoCanada 45.330.2%3.6×14 -4.8%
9 University of UtahUnited States 45.328.4%5.3×9 +108.0%
10 Washington University in St. LouisUnited States 43.533.6%5.0×10 -7.6%

Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.

Is Public Health Policies and Education research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 24% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Public Health Policies and Education.

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The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.