Health Promotion International, Vol. 15, No. 1, 90-91,
March 2000
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Perspectives in Public Health
Sian Griffiths and David J. Hunter Radcliffe Medical Press, ISBN 1 85775 209 0
Pontypridd and Rhondda NHS Trust/Welsh, Institute for Health and Social Care, University of Glamorgan For all the talk of multi-disciplinary and multi-agency Public Health, it is actually quite difficult to find texts which take a genuinely broad approach to public health policy and practice. Perspectives in Public Health does just that and as such is a thoroughly worthwhile read both for students of Public Health and for those of us, more seasoned in the field, who are trying to keep pace with developments and fit them into the contemporary political context in Britain, and indeed elsewhere in the developed world.
The book has a Foreword by Tessa Jowell, UK Minister of State for Public Health, which serves to emphasize the fact that