Evolution, Medicine and Public Health – Embracing the Future

Connecting evolution, medicine, and public health.

Future role of public health medicine.

Frada Eskin in her contribution to the debate on the future role of public health medicine makes interesting points on the interrelationship between leadership, politics and public health. In particular, she laments that public health doctors have been too involved in ‘unnecessary detail’, as their job is to ‘create the vision’ so that ‘others can make it happen’. Although a firm believer in mu...

The future of emergency medicine public health research.

This chapter addresses past successes and challenges and then elaborates on the potential for further advances in three areas that bridge emergency medicine and the broader public health and health services research agenda: (1) monitoring health care access; (2) surveillance of diseases, injuries, and health risks; and (3) delivering clinical preventive services. This article also suggests ways...

Embracing the future.

J Bone Joint Surg [Br] 2010;92-B:1185. The title “The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery” is owned by the American volume of our journal and we have, since the inception of the JBJS [Br] in 1948, regularly negotiated a contract to allow us to use the name. This has resulted in an extremely fruitful relationship over many years. However, even in the reporting of advances in orthopaedic surgery th...

Public Health and Medicine

Public health and medicine approach the challenge of health and health care from distinct, complementary perspectives (Table 1). In medicine, the ocus is on the individual patient, within the context of amily and community. In public health, the focus is on he health of populations, with the expression of illness ound in the lives of individuals. Medicine draws mainly n the biological sciences,...