[Public health work is improvement without impairment].
Strategies for community intervention, their evaluation and social patterning are discussed in the article. Theories and methods are called for to enable better assessment of social inequalities in health outcome variables and processes in public health endeavours. With this is a starting point some methodological and ethical issues relating to preventive programmes and their evaluation are identified.
Institutionen för epidemiologi och folkhälsovetenskap, Umeå universitet.
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D003153:Community Health Services; D019058:Community Networks; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D006801:Humans; D008403:Mass Screening; D011314:Preventive Health Services; D011322:Primary Prevention; D011634:Public Health; D012041:Regional Medical Programs; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013548:Sweden
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