The Lancet) typically focus on reaching medical professionals as their main audience, although the boundaries between these two categories are increasingly blurry.
In response they have turned towards publishing "articles that are more journalism than science" such as reviews, news, and educational material.
[4] In this process, articles which meet the minimum requirements for submission (such as including the necessary descriptions of funding, privacy and publication releases, ethics/institutional review board approval, statements of original work, signatures of authors, and so on,) are first looked over by a managing editor or a member of an editorial board.
They may be referred back to the authors for revision and resubmission, rejected, or presented to the editorial board for final approval.
By the early 21st century, most public health and medical journals were available online, thus increasing their accessibility worldwide.
There is a general move from print as primary medium to electronic publication, an example being the online journals published by BioMed Central.
[6][7] In addition, given their interdisciplinary nature, some journals with a public health focus may be found in other categories.