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Record W2169737744

Promoting the Public Health: Continuity and Change over Two Centuries

2007· book-chapter· en· W2169737744 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Jenny Douglas

Bibliographic record

VenueOpen Research Online (The Open University) · 2007
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldHealth Professions
TopicObesity and Health Practices
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsHealth promotionPublic healthCharterHealth policyPolitical scienceInternational healthPublic administrationPublic relationsMedicineNursingLaw
DOInot available

Abstract

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This chapter explores the origins of public health in the UK, documenting the political influences which led to the passing of the first public health Act in England and Wales in 1848. Although heralded as a turning point in the recognition of the role of poverty and environment in determining health status, the initial permissive public health act had to be strengthened by compulsory legislation and the development of a public health infrastructure which then became dominated by biomedical perspectives. The chapter will outline the more recent development of the ‘new public health’ and track the emergence of health promotion from the Ottawa Charter (WHO, 1986) to the Bangkok Charter (WHO, 2005). In exploring definitions of health promotion from the USA, Canada, and the UK, it will demonstrate the contested nature of health promotion, the divergence in understandings of health promotion and the relationship of health promotion to the ‘new public health’. Charting the renaissance of public health in the UK from 1988 to the present, the chapter looks at the development of modern multidisciplinary public health. The publication of UK public health strategies heralded a resurgence in public health, changes in the Faculty of Public Health Medicine to become the Faculty of Public Health and the development of competencies for public health. The influence of reports such as the Wanless Reports is explored and the relationship of health promotion to public health as part of multidisciplinary public health is examined. The conflicts and tensions that have emerged as a result of differences between policy and practice are interrogated as is the role that politics has played in developing public health in primary care organisations, local authorities and voluntary organisations.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.024
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Science and technology studies, Open science, Research integrity, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesOpen science
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.942
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0240.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0120.001
Scholarly communication0.0010.002
Open science0.0050.016
Research integrity0.0010.007
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.563
GPT teacher head0.568
Teacher spread0.006 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Citations3
Published2007
Admission routes1
Has abstractyes

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