Preventive Medicine is a peer-reviewed medical journal published by Elsevier since 1972.

It covers all aspects of preventive medicine and public health.

[1] The founding editor was Ernst Wynder.

The journal is abstracted and indexed in EMBASE, Scopus, Science Citation Index, Current Contents/Clinical Medicine, BIOSIS Previews, and Index Medicus/MEDLINE/PubMed.

Its 2014 impact factor was 3.086, ranking it 25th among 153 journals in the category "General and Internal Medicine"[2] and 31st among 162 journals in the category "Public, Environmental, and Occupational Health".