Public health and epidemiology journals published in Brazil and other Portuguese speaking countries

It is well known that papers written in languages other than English have a great risk of being ignored simply because these languages are not accessible to the international scientific community. This general observation must not be different regarding the epidemiological and public health scientific literature. The objective of this paper is to facilitate the access to the public health and epidemiology literature available in Portuguese speaking countries by present the journals, as well as the bibliographic databases that index these journals and how to access them. It was found that it is particularly concentrated in Brazil with some few examples from Portugal and none in other Portuguese speaking countries.In Brazil, public health and epidemiological studies gained momentum in the 1970's, with the implementation of the first postgraduate programs in Public Health (or Collective Health, as it called in Brazil). By the end of the decade, the creation of the Brazilian Association of Collective Health (ABRASCO) and the constitution of its epidemiology commission played an important role in the strengthening of this area of knowledge. As of the 1990's, Brazilian Epidemiology Congresses held at triennial intervals opened room to promote the training of teachers and researchers, as well as of healthcare workers.These facts had an impact on scientific production and, in the period from 1973 to 1992, Brazil already accounted for 60.7% of the papers on public health produced by researchers from Latin America, and published in indexed journals of the database ISI/Thomson Scientific [1]. This fact becomes more relevant when we note that with regard to clinical and biomedical research, the percentage of Brazilian production was 26.6% and 38.7%, respectively.Currently, Brazil has 39 postgraduate programs in Collective Health, three of which are exclusively in Epidemiology and great part of them include epidemiology. The directory of research groups of the Brazilian National