The Exodus of Public Health What History Can Tell Us About the Future

Dados Bibliográficos

ID11020107
AutoresAmy L Fairchild (0000-0002-1292-7212, All of the authors are with the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY.), David Rosner (0000-0002-0127-6987, All of the authors are with the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY.), James Colgrove (0009-0006-6684-0469, All of the authors are with the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY.), Ronald Bayer (All of the authors are with the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY.), Linda P Fried (0000-0002-0815-1706, All of the authors are with the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY.)
Ano2010
Volume100
Fascículo1
Páginas54-63
Data de publicação2010-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAmerican Journal of Public Health (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0090-0036 • E-ISSN: 1541-0048
EditoraAmerican Public Health Association (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2105/ajph.2009.163956
PMID19965565
PMCIDPMC2791244
OpenAlexW2102815530
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas40
Referências citadas15

We trace the shifting definitions of the American public health profession's mission as a social reform and science-based endeavor. Its authority coalesced in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as public health identified itself with housing, sanitation, and labor reform efforts. The field ceded that authority to medicine and other professions as it jettisoned its social mission in favor of a science-based identity. Understanding the potential for achieving progressive social change as it moves forward will require careful consideration of the industrial, structural, and intellectual forces that oppose radical reform and the identification of constituencies with which professionals can align to bring science to bear on the most pressing challenges of the day

Field (mathematics) · Identity (music) · Political science · Politics · Progressive era · Public health · Public relations · Sanitation · Social reform · TRACE (psycholinguistics) · Health Promotion and Cardiovascular Prevention · Historical and modern epidemiology studies · Law · Medicine · Public Administration · Public Health Policies and Education