The New Public Health

On Folk Devils, Moral Panics and New Wave Public Health

New wave public health places an emphasis on exhorting individuals to engage in healthy behaviour with good health being a signifier of virtuous moral standing, whereas poor health is often associated with personal moral failings. In effect, the medical is increasingly being collapsed into the moral. This approach is consistent with other aspects of contemporary neolibe...

Ecological Approaches in the New Public Health

In stark contrast to individual-level approaches to health promotion, ecological approaches target multiple influences of health behavior, because changing individuals and their behaviors may be temporary without corresponding changes to the environment in which they are embedded. Using an ecological approach, supportive environmental factors are considered when designing effective and sustaina...

Human rights and the new public health.

The exciting and rapidly advancing dialogue between health and human rights is helping to define more clearly the challenges and perspectives of a new approach to public health. Public health has a complex intellectual and operational history, within which there is a long and respected tradition of understanding health as linked with various social realities, expressed or analyzed through occup...

Old Europe — New Public Health

What's new in public health?

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