The hospital and the public health: changing needs and new visions.
The practice of medicine and other clinical areas cannot take place in isolation from the society of which it is a part. Changes in demography, public expectations, patterns of health and disease and the capacity of interventions to make a difference indicate that dramatic changes in health care are inevitable, which will need health-care professionals to understand the public health context of their work.
Ashton
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NHS Executive North West, Warrington.
D006801:Humans; D015980:Public Health Practice; D013222:State Medicine / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006113:United Kingdom