title: History of public health-history in public health: looking back and looking forward.
abstract: The history of public health is a given aspect of general (cultural, social and political) history.  It is subject to conditions and quality standards given in general history. History in public health is-in contrast to a history of public health-guided by the relevance of its questions and issues for present-day problems of general decision-making in public health care. The task of history in public health is the background analysis of social changes in public health. History in public health clarifies the actual field of public health with respect to its open and hidden lines and factors of development.
authors.affiliation: Institut fur Geschichte der Medizin der Heinrich-Heine-Universitat Dusseldorf.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Labisch
mesh_terms: D006663:Historiography; D006664:History; D049673:History, 20th Century; D011634:Public Health / Q000266:history*