The UK public health system: change and constancy.
The public health system in the UK has evolved from medical officer posts rooted in the era of sanitary reform to a modern service embedded within the National Health Service. The challenge for today's public health function is to retain a broad-based philosophy encompassing population programmes addressing health inequalities, whilst also delivering the personalized approach to supporting lifestyle change which is being demanded increasingly.
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Department of Health, Richmond House, 79 Whitehall, London SW1A 2NS, UK. lee.morris@dh.gsi.gov.uk
D054625:Healthcare Disparities; D015980:Public Health Practice; D013222:State Medicine / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006113:United Kingdom