title: A hive of activity: the future of public health.
abstract: In consultation with primary and secondary care, public health has a crucial role in improving the health of the population through health promotion, advice on appropriateness and effectiveness of services and communicable disease control. The speciality of public health medicine can only achieve this goal if it is allowed a degree of stability after the numerous organisational changes of the last two decades. The 'beehive model' of public health may offer an organisational structure that is adaptable to further health service change, reflects the rise in multidisciplinary working, guarantees freedom of speech and is sustainable within existing manpower numbers.
authors.affiliation: Department of Public Health and Health Promotion, School of Epidemiology and Health Sciences, University of Manchester.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kisely
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Jones
mesh_terms: D003140:Communicable Disease Control; D006293:Health Promotion; D006302:Health Services Research; D006801:Humans; D017146:Models, Organizational; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D011322:Primary Prevention; D011635:Public Health Administration / Q000639:trends*; D006113:United Kingdom