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Stewart-Brown, Sarah L.. (2011) Learning our way in the future public health : extending the proposition. Journal of Public Health, Vol.33 (No.3). p. 343. ISSN 1741-3842

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdr062

Abstract

The two central tenets proposed by Hanlon and his co-authors Carlisle, Hannah, Lyon and Reilly that something is missing from our current approach to public health and that we are currently facing the prospect of radical change in the way we live -seem to me to be self-evident. The problem is that not all of us are facing this; some are inclined to look the other way. Public health professionals are probably the most experienced of all the professionals working in the health service in weathering change. We have become quite good at seeing the creative possibilities that change brings, as well as the chaos. But the changes that peak oil and climate change could bring are sufficiently scary to warrant a defence mechanism or two, and denial is a good defence mechanism, at least in the short term.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Subjects:	R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine
Divisions:	Faculty of Medicine > Warwick Medical School
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	Public health -- Research, Intuition
Journal or Publication Title:	Journal of Public Health
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
ISSN:	1741-3842
Official Date:	September 2011
Volume:	Vol.33
Number:	No.3
Page Range:	p. 343
Identification Number:	10.1093/pubmed/fdr062
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
Access rights to Published version:	Restricted or Subscription Access
URI:	http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/38428