PHA-Exchange> Public health in the new era: improving health through collective action (2)

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from "Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC)" <ruglucia at PAHO.ORG> -----

Public health in the new era: improving health through collective action

Robert Beaglehole, Ruth Bonita, Richard Horton, Orvill Adams, Martin
McKee 
The Lancet Volume 363, Number 9426  - 19 June 2004  

Available at:
http://www.thelancet.com/journal/vol363/iss9426/full/llan.363.9426.edito
rial_and_review.29970.1

".......The world is entering a new era in which, paradoxically,
improvements in some health indicators and major reversals in other
indicators are occurring simultaneously. Rapid changes in an already
complex global health situation are taking place in a context in which
the global public-health workforce is unprepared to confront these
challenges. This lack of preparation is partly because the challenges
are large and complex, the public-health workforce and infrastructure
have been neglected, and training programmes are inadequate. These
problems are exacerbated by the concentration of funding on biomedical
research and the failure to confront and work with vested interests,
which promote and sustain unhealthy behaviour patterns. 

 If public-health practitioners are to address national and global health
challenges effectively, the way they work and make their work relevant
to these challenges will require a major reorientation. A clear vision
of what public health is, and what it can offer, is required. To be
achievable, the vision must then be communicated not only to its
practitioners, but also to the wider policy community, whose actions are
necessary to improve the health of the public. Here, we propose a
reformulation of public health appropriate for the global and national
health challenges in this new era......"

The practice of public health
<http://www.thelancet.com/journal/vol363/iss9426/full/llan.363.9426.edit
orial_and_review.29970.1#thepracticeofpublichealth#thepracticeofpubliche
alth> 
Defining public health
<http://www.thelancet.com/journal/vol363/iss9426/full/llan.363.9426.edit
orial_and_review.29970.1#definingpublichealth#definingpublichealth> 
The public-health response to the global health challenges
<http://www.thelancet.com/journal/vol363/iss9426/full/llan.363.9426.edit
orial_and_review.29970.1#thepublichealthresponsetotheglobalhealthchallen
ges#thepublichealthresponsetotheglobalhealthchallenges> 
Key themes of modern public-health theory and practice
<http://www.thelancet.com/journal/vol363/iss9426/full/llan.363.9426.edit
orial_and_review.29970.1#keythemesofmodernpublichealththeoryandpractice#
keythemesofmodernpublichealththeoryandpractice> 
Public health for the new era
<http://www.thelancet.com/journal/vol363/iss9426/full/llan.363.9426.edit
orial_and_review.29970.1#publichealthforthenewera#publichealthforthenewe
ra> 
References
<http://www.thelancet.com/journal/vol363/iss9426/full/llan.363.9426.edit
orial_and_review.29970.1#references#references> 

 


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