Health systems everywhere are experiencing rapid change in response to new threats to health, including from lifestyle diseases, risks of pandemic flu, and the global effects of climate change, but health inequalities continue to widen. Such developments have profound implications for the future direction of public health policy and practice. This book offers a wide-ranging, provocative assessment of challenges confronting a public health system, exploring how its parameters have shifted and what the origins of dilemmas in public health practice are.
Keywords: public health system, public health policy, public health practice, England, health policy, health inequalities
Print publication date: 2010 | Print ISBN-13: 9781847424631 |
Published to Policy Press Scholarship Online: March 2012 | DOI:10.1332/policypress/9781847424631.001.0001 |