Looking Forward to the Past? The Politics of Public Health

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ID2113525
AuthorsRob Baggott (0000-0002-8947-0214, corresponding author)
Year1991
Volume20
Issue2
Pages191-213
Publication date1991-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Social Policy (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0047-2794 • E-ISSN: 1469-7823
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0047279400018717
OpenAlexW2094689477
LanguageEN
Citations received10
References cited13

This article explores the role of political agents, institutions, circumstances, and ideas in the development of public health policies in Britain. The first part attempts to define public health. The second section of the article looks at the experience of the Victorian public health movement. The final part considers the re-emergence of the public health perspective. The underlying theme of the article is that an awareness of the political dimension, both contemporary and historical, improves our understanding of developments in the field of public health. The main conclusions reached are: first, that given the formidable political obstacles which exist, public health reform will only succeed if the reformers themselves operate with full awareness of the political dimension; second, that the modern public health debate is unlikely to be resolved in the short term

Dimension (graph theory) · Field (mathematics) · Perspective (graphical) · Political science · Politics · Public health · Sociology · Theme (computing) · Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology · Law · Medicine · Public Administration · Public Health Policies and Education

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