Description
Book SynopsisA lively and comprehensive review of policy change, Multidisciplinary public health: Understanding the development of the modern workforce concludes with a reflection on the new public health system under way in England, making useful comparisons with the rest of the UK.
Trade Review"Recent developments in public health are poorly understood by the public. Multidisciplinary public health provides a readable history, based on the authors' own involvement, of one key change in modern public health - the incorporation of non-medical people into the mainstream public health workforce." Virginia Berridge, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine "Public health in England has moved into uncharted territory. This timely and important history of the changing workforce is an indispensable guide to the challenges and unfinished business ahead" David J Hunter, Durham University "A key text, entertainingly and expertly written, for anyone who wants to be better informed about public health and the contemporary development of the workforce that delivers it. This book provides a welcome addition to the literature on public health in England" Lord Hunt of King's Heath
Table of ContentsIntroduction and methods; Developing the specialty of public health; The multidisciplinary public health movement of the 1990s; Changes for specialists I: Setting up a multidisciplinary public health senior appointments process; Changes for specialists II: The new regulatory system for specialists; Changes for specialists III: The establishment of multidisciplinary higher specialist training in public health; The focus on practitioners and the wider workforce; Where we are now? The new public health system in England from April 2013; Experience across the other UK countries; Conclusion.
