the-lancet-public-health
Use when targeting The Lancet Public Health or deciding whether a population-health study fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, the population-level intervention, epidemiology, and policy evidence bar, reporting-guideline and registration requirements, Lancet specialty house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics. Venue-fit aid only, not clinical advice.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill the-lancet-public-health --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# The Lancet Public Health (the-lancet-public-health) ## Journal positioning The Lancet Public Health is a Lancet specialty journal for population and public-health research — population-level interventions, health policy and systems, epidemiology and disease burden, and global-health and health-equity research with population-level relevance. It favors **rigorous studies whose unit of interest and consequence is the population, not the individual patient**: large-scale epidemiology, policy and natural experiments, modelling with clear public-health decision value, and interventions addressing inequalities or the social determinants of health. The defining misfit is an individual-level clinical study (a drug or device effect in patients) with no population, policy, or equity dimension — that belongs in a clinical journal. This skill is a **fit / venue-selection / re-framing** aid; it is not clinical or regulatory advice and does not replace the journal's current instructions for authors. Before submitting, re-check the live The Lancet Public Health author instructions. ## When to trigger - The author names The Lancet Public Health for a population-health, epidemiology, or policy st
- Journal positioning
- When to trigger
- Scope & topic fit
- Method & evidence bar
- Structure & house style
- Official-submission checklist
- Pre-submission self-check
- Common desk-reject triggers
- Re-routing decision
- Output format
What does the the-lancet-public-health skill do?
Use when targeting The Lancet Public Health or deciding whether a population-health study fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, the population-level intervention, epidemiology, and policy evidence bar, reporting-guideline and registration requirements, Lancet specialty house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics. Venue-fit aid only, not clinical advice.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill the-lancet-public-health --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, a repository with 984 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.