The Future of a Public Health of Consequence: A Public Health of Consequence, December 2019

Four years ago, in January 2016, we launched a section in AJPH called "A Public Health of Consequence."1 In that inaugural section, we suggested, "The role of scholarship in public health should therefore be to generate the knowledge that can inform public health action aiming to impr...

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Veröffentlicht in:American journal of public health (1971) 2019-12, Vol.109 (12), p.1628-1629
Hauptverfasser: Galea, Sandro, Vaughan, Roger D
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:Four years ago, in January 2016, we launched a section in AJPH called "A Public Health of Consequence."1 In that inaugural section, we suggested, "The role of scholarship in public health should therefore be to generate the knowledge that can inform public health action aiming to improve the conditions that makes us all healthy. "1(p10) And we asked, "But does our scholarship today do that?" We aimed to highlight a few articles each month, asking, "Why do these articles matter?" Our goal, as we set it for ourselves then, was threefold: First we aimed to make salient the questions: does particular work matter, and how can we make sure that it is presented in a way that influences the work of improving public health. Second, we hoped "to develop a more robust intellectual architecture that informs how we think about the very idea of a public health of consequence. "1(p11) Third, we aimed to generate discussion and disagreement, seeing discussion as a productive force in science. Today, four years later, we bring the section to a close-for reasons we discuss in conclusion-and as we do so, we ask ourselves, how well did we do toward meeting our goals?
ISSN:0090-0036
1541-0048
DOI:10.2105/AJPH.2019.305381