Public health. The missing link.
The government's strategy for public health may fail because of a lack of co-operation between organisations. Primary care, as presently constituted, has little energy to take on public health. The strategy places too much stress on the role of health authorities and too little on primary care and local communities. The predominance of the medical model in public health needs to be addressed.
Peckham
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Institute of Health Policy Studies, Southampton University.
Turton
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Taylor
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D002017:Budgets; D004465:Economic Competition; D005380:Financing, Government; D006305:Health Status Indicators; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D011634:Public Health; D013222:State Medicine / Q000458:organization & administration; D006113:United Kingdom / Q000453:epidemiology