Analysis of the key words in four core preventive medicine journals,2001～2006 / 中华疾病控制杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To understand hot-spot of preventive medicine research at the beginning of the 21st century.Methods To analyze all the key words in the articles from four highly influential comprehensive preventive medical journals from 2001 to 2006 through word frequency analysis.Results In research population,children have always been the focus of attention,and more attention was paid to young people and college students in 2006.In research methods,the epidemiological and the molecular biological methods have been the main preventive medicine research ones.As regards research content,risk factors have been mainly studied;hypertension and obesity has been focused on,and diabetes and AIDS have been paid more attention to since 2003;Lead on trace elements has received more attention gradually.Conclusions Close attention should be given to the research of preventive medicine in the rural areas.