What’s New About the “New Public Health”

Bibliographic Data

ID11021048
AuthorsNiyi Awofeso (0000-0001-5748-2969, At the time this article was written, the author was with the School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, and the New South Wales Corrections Health Service, Matraville, Australia., corresponding author)
Year2004
Volume94
Issue5
Pages705-709
Publication date2004-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Journal of Public Health (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0090-0036 • E-ISSN: 1541-0048
PublisherAmerican Public Health Association (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2105/ajph.94.5.705
PMID15117684
OpenAlexW2129448833
LanguageEN
Citations received30
References cited16

From its origins, when public health was integral to societies’ social structures, through the sanitary movement and contagion eras, when it evolved as a separate discipline, to the “new public health” era, when health promotion projects like Healthy Cities appear to be steering the discipline back to society’s social structure, public health seems to have come full circle. It is this observation that has led some to ask, “What’s new about the ‘new public health’?” This article addresses the question by highlighting what is new about the health promotion era—including adapted components of previous eras that have been incorporated into its core activities—and its suitability in addressing established and emerging public health threats

Environmental health · Political science · Public health · Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology · Medicine · Nursing · Obesity and Health Practices · Public Health Policies and Education

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