Redefining and redesigning public health for the future

[...]the issues related to “social machinery” to ensure “a standard of living adequate for the maintenance of health” continues to be neglected in conventional public health approach. The contribution of social determinants of health is ignored partly due to the lack of scholarship in this field in...

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Published in:Indian journal of public health 2020-04, Vol.64 (2), p.97-98
Main Author: Kumar, Rajesh
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Communicable Disease Control - organization & administration
Disease
Expenditures
GDP
Gross Domestic Product
Health care
Health care facilities
Health education
Health Services Accessibility
Humans
India
Political activism
Politics
Preventive medicine
Public Health
Public Health Administration
Public health education
Public policy
Redesign
Sanitation
Science
Social Determinants of Health
Social sciences
Socioeconomic Factors
Sociopolitical factors
Standard of living
Sustainable development
Values
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Summary:[...]the issues related to “social machinery” to ensure “a standard of living adequate for the maintenance of health” continues to be neglected in conventional public health approach. The contribution of social determinants of health is ignored partly due to the lack of scholarship in this field in medical institutions as most of the scholars with medical background do not have capacity to dwell into this field and usually attribute gains in health to medical interventions only. [...]it is important to redesign public health education system to develop this capacity which is possible only by situating public health schools in multi-faculty universities with strong track record in social sciences to develop courses at undergraduate, postgraduate, doctoral, and postdoctoral level with prominence on social determinants of health so that capacity is built for enabling multisectoral public policies and programs. Taking public health actions in multiple sectors would require political will to take on vested commercial interests which produce and propagate health damaging products and behaviors. [...]public health practitioners should have capacity for developing strategies to establish the worth of public health actions to legislators, civil servants, and general public to build up the constituents in support of these actions.
ISSN:0019-557X
2229-7693
DOI:10.4103/ijph.IJPH_185_20