PHA-Exchange> Towards a politics of health

[Claudio]

From: Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC) 

Towards a politics of health

 

Clare Bambra, Department of Sociology and Social Policy, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK 

Debbie Fox, Alex Scott-Samuel, Department of Public Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK

Oxford University Press, February 18, 2005  - doi:10.1093/heapro/dah608

 

http://heapro.oupjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/dah608v1 

 

 

Abstract

The importance of public policy as a determinant of health is routinely acknowledged, but there remains a continuing absence of mainstream debate about the ways in which the politics, power and ideology, which underpin public policy influence people's health. This paper explores the possible reasons behind the absence of a politics of health and demonstrates how explicit acknowledgement of the political nature of health will lead to more effective health promotion strategy and policy, and to more realistic and evidence-based public health and health promotion practice.

 

TOWARDS A POLITICS OF HEALTH

"..What this all adds up to is nothing less than a challenge to a wide range of actors-health promotion and public health specialists, policy makers, politicians,  health and political scientists-to emerge from the closet and to begin the long overdue task of elaborating the practice, policy and theory of a newly identified discipline- health politics, the political science of health. 

 

We believe that we have more than adequately justified the need for health politics to emerge as a discipline and field of practice no less important than medical sociology or health economics on the one hand, or than political sociology or political psychology on the other. We are confident that the practice of health promotion and public health will gain immeasurably from the explicit recognition of this key determinant of health and its incorporation into evidence-based strategies, policies and interventions..."

 

I WONDER IF ANY OF OUR LIST MEMBERS CARES TO REVIEW THIS PUBLICATION AND WRITES A SHORT CRITIQUE TO POST.

Claudio

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