The relevance of Public Health Journals in informing research, education, health services, and citizenship

Abstract

This text presents in a synthetic manner the discussions of the working group of the same name, held during the international conference commemorating the twenty years of the SciELO Program. The objective is to inform the Public Health professional field about chronic problems affecting scientific periodicals in Brazil – financing, classification of journals, the impact of published works, among others.

Key words Journal; Public health