Tricco Andrea C, Runnels Vivien, Sampson Margaret, Bouchard Louise
Institute of Population Health, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON.
Can J Public Health. 2008 Nov-Dec;99(6):466-71. doi: 10.1007/BF03403777.
Bibliometric analysis can be used to objectively compare the usage of terms over time. The purpose of this research was to compare the use of population health, health promotion, and public health using bibliometric indicators of the published literature.
Bibliometric indicators, such as scientific productivity and the overlap between the terms, were analyzed in the Web of Science. Indexing of population health, health promotion, and public health was explored in MEDLINE, CINAHL, and EMBASE.
The most productive country in population health was Canada, while the most productive country in health promotion and public health was the United States. The number of published articles using the public health term was surpassed by health promotion around 1990. Both were surpassed by population health around 2000. Population health was the only concept which lacked an index term in all three databases.
There has been a shift in the usage of public health, health promotion, and population health concepts over time. Country analysis revealed that Canadian researchers are leaders in population health, while researchers based in the United States are leaders in public health and health promotion. This may indicate differences rooted in the social, historical and economic traditions. Although the publication rate of articles described as 'population health' research is increasing, it is lacking an index term across major electronic databases. We suggest that without timely acceptance of terms, new concepts that represent different ways of thinking about health may be limited, delayed or glossed over.
文献计量分析可用于客观比较术语随时间的使用情况。本研究的目的是使用已发表文献的文献计量指标来比较人群健康、健康促进和公共卫生的使用情况。
在科学网中分析文献计量指标，如科研生产力和术语之间的重叠情况。在医学索引数据库（MEDLINE）、护理及健康领域数据库（CINAHL）和荷兰医学文摘数据库（EMBASE）中探索人群健康、健康促进和公共卫生的索引情况。
人群健康领域发文最多的国家是加拿大，而健康促进和公共卫生领域发文最多的国家是美国。1990年左右，使用健康促进术语发表的文章数量超过了使用公共卫生术语的文章数量。2000年左右，这两者又都被人群健康领域的发文数量超过。人群健康是所有三个数据库中唯一缺乏索引词的概念。
随着时间的推移，公共卫生、健康促进和人群健康概念的使用发生了变化。国家分析表明，加拿大研究人员在人群健康领域处于领先地位，而美国的研究人员在公共卫生和健康促进领域处于领先地位。这可能表明存在源于社会、历史和经济传统的差异。尽管被描述为“人群健康”研究的文章发表率在上升，但在主要电子数据库中却缺乏索引词。我们建议，如果不及时接受这些术语，代表不同健康思维方式的新概念可能会受到限制、延迟或被忽视。
