Public Health Policy

This volume provides a new and innovative overview of the key debates relating to public health policy in the UK and sets out the policy implications for the future, offering a way forward based on the concept of managing for health. aeo A timely and innovative overview of the key debates relating to public health policy in the UK. aeo explains that health–care services are not the principal determinants of health, and asks why, therefore, they absorb the bulk of resources and attention of policy–makers. aeo Argues that a paradigm shift is needed if current health policy biases are to be confronted. aeo Uses examples from Europe and Canada, where a similar policy imbalance exists. aeo Sets out the policy implications for the future and offers a way forward based on the concept of managing for health.