Data, Politics and Public Health

Foreword: Public health, public policy, politics and policing

Reducing harm from drug use lies at the intersection of public health, public policy, politics and policing. In an ideal world, evidence of public health gains achievable through new approaches or technologies should inform public policy, should help shape political agendas in support of policy change, which should translate into law and regulations - and then to their application. The goal of ...

Obesity, courts, and the new politics of public health.

Health care politics are changing. They increasingly focus not on avowedly public projects (such as building the health care infrastructure) but on regulating private behavior. Examples include tobacco, obesity, abortion, drug abuse, the right to die, and even a patient's relationship with his or her managed care organization. Regulating private behavior introduces a distinctive policy process;...

Indigenous politics, public health and the Cambodian colonial state

This article examines controversies surrounding the implementation of the first colonial indigenous health service, the Assistance Médicale, in Cambodia. It characterizes individual and group behaviours in the immediate social conditions of colonial Cambodian society, as well as some of the paradoxes of the modernization narrative ascribed to the colonial science of this period. This discussion...

Rationality review and the politics of public health.

Egypt's other wars: epidemics and the politics of public health

greatly to the health service education of the committee's perspiring secretary" (p. 64). An interesting retrospective of this period contrasts with a thin treatment of the 1940s and the transition to the NHS. While there has been substantial coverage of the high politics of this period, grass roots material on how the infirmary and its patients were affected would have been valuable. Given the...