Published six times per year, the Scandinavian Journal of Public Health is an international forum for Nordic as well as international public health research and policy. The journal rises to the challenge of bringing theory and method closer to public health efforts. It reflects the healthy multidisciplinarity that has become characteristic of public health globally in recent years. The journal echoes today's challenges within public health as we face new and re-emerging diseases, changes in demography and the responses of health services to changing patterns of disease.

The Scandinavian Journal of Public Health has a vision to:

• foster and disseminate valid results from public health endeavors
• contribute to the conceptual and methodological developments of public health in terms of its:
  • efficacy,
  • cost effectiveness,
  • social, ethical and political implications
• influence the current health research imbalance and give more priority to global health issues