European Journal of Public Health and EUPHA -10 years on

摘要

Anniversaries provide an opportunity for reflection. Where have we come from? Where are we going? And why are we here? My task is to reflect on these questions as they relate to our journal, the European Journal of Public Health.The first question, where have we come from, is the easiest one to answer. We began as an idea by my predecessor, Per-Gunner Svensson, who identified the need for a public health journal with a particular European focus. Of course there were already many national public health journals, and even some regional ones, such as the excellent Scandinavian Journal of Public Health. At that time the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health was still largely a British journal, although it has since been transformed under the outstanding editorship of Carlos Alvarez and John Ashton. And of course there were the many more specialised journals in areas such as epidemiology, economics and so on. But at a time when borders were opening all across Europe, whether through the Schengen Agreement within the European Union or the Treaty of Paris, which marked the end of the cold war, there was a clear gap in the market for a specifically European multi-disciplinary perspective.