title: Public health at the crossroads: which way forward?
abstract: Public health represents society's organised and publicly supported efforts to improve the health status of the entire population; its focus is on the reduction of health inequalities by optimising the underlying determinants of health and preventing disease. But public health is under threat and needs to be strengthened so that it is at the centre of human endeavour--locally, nationally, and worldwide.
authors.affiliation: Department of Community Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Science, University of Auckland, New Zealand.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Beaglehole
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Bonita
mesh_terms: D014943:Global Health; D006801:Humans; D015980:Public Health Practice