Sandra Dawson, Zoe Slote Morris (editors). Future public health.

Philip Morris' FDA gambit: good for public health?

The objective of this study was to determine whether the 2004 USA Dewine-Kennedy Bill is congruent with Philip Morris' core policy principles for United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulation of tobacco and what impact that would have on the public health. I compared the Dewine-Kennedy Bill with 1999 Philip Morris core policy principles for FDA regulation. Additional supporting da...

The future of public health.

The scale of health inequalities in the UK is stark indeed: and their persistence has disfigured our society. Can there be any room for complacency when we know that a male resident of Manchester can expect to live over seven years less than his contemporary in Barnet? Or, that when it comes to healthy life expectancy the gap is even greater: The number of years of life in good health that a ma...

Where is the future in public health?

CONTEXT Today's societies have far-reaching impacts on future conditions for health. Against this backdrop, this article explores how the future is represented in contemporary public health, examining both its conceptual base and influential approaches through which evidence is generated for policy. METHODS Mission statements and official reviews provide insight into how the future is represe...

Public health and law enforcement: future directions.

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...