What price community medicine?: the philosophy, practice and politics of public health since 1919

What price community medicine? The philosophy, practice and politics of public health since 1919

that AIDS is a "racial poison", compared to which the threats to the health of the population identified by the earlier social hygiene movement pale into insignificance! But even to raise such issues is to draw attention to the enormous changes that have occurred in the social framework of discussion on public health since the period that Greta Jones has skilfully anaylsed in this book. As Jane...

Teaching/Training and Practice of Public Health/PSM/Community Medicine

Public health and community medicine instruction and physician practice location.

BACKGROUND Experts have historically recommended better integration of public health content into medical education. Whether this adoption is associated with physician practice location has not been studied. PURPOSE To examine the association between medical student perception of their public health and community medicine instruction and practice location in a Health Professional Shortage Are...

Community/practice/academic partnerships in public health.

The forging of links between academia and the field of practice is a much-discussed topic. The 1988 Institute of Medicine Report on the Future of Public Health noted that public health academic institutions had become “isolated from the field of public health practice.”1 The Committee opined that neither academia nor practice can work at the desired level of excellence without the perspective a...

The Politics and Analytics of Health Policy

Let us start with an example of health policy analysis in action. Within that category of countries loosely known as ‘the West’, quite basic differences exist in attitudes to health policy and also actual health policy. Comparing the US with mainland Europe and indeed Canada, for example, one perceives a difference in attitude on the part of the majority towards collectivism and individualism i...