Founded in 1985, Chinese Journal of Public Health has become one of the most influential national academic journals in the field of public health and preventive medicine in China which is featuring with authoritative and comprehensive. Chinese Journal of Public Health comprehensively reflects the progress and development of China's public health and preventive medicine. The journal promotes the results of academic research, exchanges the experience and technical methods of various types of health prevention and health care institutions. The journal’s academic, comprehensiveness, and practicality makes it perfectly suitable for the reference of the leaders of health administrative department and management personals who are comprehensively managing the academic progress and trends of public health and preventive medicine. It also serves a reference to the academic research work for the leaders and experts in medical schools, research institutions, preventive health care communities, health supervision bureaus and other medical institutions.

Chinese Journal of Public Health mainly publishes the article types such as Editorial, Special report, Epidemiological research, Review, Experimental research, Survey research and analysis, Inspection technology, Public health forum, Authors, Readers, and Editors etc.