A History of Public Health in Alberta, 1919-2019

A History of Public Health in Alberta, 1919-2019

Public health;history;Alberta;population health

Public health is diffuse, divided, and poorly understood. As a policy and practice, public health promotes and protects people and communities. As a field of academic inquiry it provides deep insights into the ways individuals and collectives can work within societies to prevent disease and promote health and health equity. Public health is a broad, intersectoral, and interdisciplinary field of scholarship, activism, policy, and practice with the potential to create and support immense change. This is a story of one hundred years of public health in Alberta. Drawing on extensive research, including interviews with members of Alberta’s public health communities, A History of Public Health in Alberta, 1919-2019 considers institutions, sectors, populations, and activities that constitute the study and practice of public health. It offers a consolidated narrative from a contemporary perspective, paying particular attention to significant and entrenched social inequities of health and their determinants, the emergence of new public health concerns, and communities of public health, including activists, practitioners, scholars, and the public itself. A History of Public Health in Alberta, 1919-2019 draws together the threads of public health policy, practice, and research, mapping its contours and presenting a holistic view of public health in the province over time. Prompted by the concern, and the experience, that public health is frequently deeply misunderstood, this book articulates a history of the field and practice essential to understanding how we may best mobilize to support well-being and health equity across populations.

McLaren, Lindsay;
Juzwishin, Donald W.M.;
Velez Mendoza, Rogelio

https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/146457

University of Calgary Press

2024

Sukma Kartikasari

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

See John Coggon, What Makes Health Public? A Critical Evaluation of Moral, Legal, and Political
Claims in Public Health (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012).

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9781773855455