Policy Points: Many barriers hamper advocacy for health equity, including the contemporary
economic zeitgeist, the biomedical health perspective, and difficulties cooperating across …

This glossary seeks to define and explain some of the main concepts underpinning
evidence based public health. It draws on the published literature, experience gained over …

One of the foremost experts in public policy here attempts not only to describe what public
policy is, but given societal changes in the last two decades, to account for its present status …

This book explores the complex relationship between public health research and policy,
employing tobacco control and health inequalities in the UK as contrasting case studies. It …

Although guidelines exist for evaluating complex interventions, they may be of little help in
dealing with the multiple effects of interventions in complex systems such as hospitals. Alan …

Developing a new specialisation—Integration and Implementation Sciences—may be an
effective way to draw together and significantly strengthen the theory and methods …

Framing battles in public health illustrate the tension in our society between individual
freedom and collective responsibility. This article describes how two frames, market justice …

This study examines whether changing the way news stories report on health can induce
shifts in readers' perceptions of problems of obesity, diabetes, immigrant health, and …

Over the past two decades, scholars and practitioners across the social sciences, policy and
beyond have proposed, trialled and developed a wide range of theoretical and practical …

The public health (PH) sector is ideally situated to take a lead advocacy role in catalysing
and guiding multi‐sectoral action to address social determinants of health inequities, but …