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Improving Public Health: Balancing Between Poles

In: Future Public Health

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  • Sue Atkinson

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Success in improving the public’s health depends upon all those involved understanding the need to balance their thoughts and actions between poles which pull in different directions, and yet which both need to be satisfied. This need for balance is seen in the tension between a reliance on the rationally based methods of scientific enquiry and evidence and a focus on the art of emotionally and intuitively based forms of explanation and action; between a focus on delivery through the NHS and delivery through cross-sectoral collaboration, extending way beyond the NHS; between a focus on individual behaviour and a focus on social determinants of health; and between a focus on improving the health of the population as a whole and on reducing the inequalities in health between different sections of the population.

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  • Sue Atkinson, 2009. "Improving Public Health: Balancing Between Poles," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Sandra Dawson & Zoë Slote Morris (ed.), Future Public Health, chapter 3, pages 58-74, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-58254-5_4
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230582545_4
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