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Population Health Science: Fulfilling the Mission of Public Health
Author(s) -
ZIMMERMAN FREDERICK J.
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
the milbank quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.563
H-Index - 101
eISSN - 1468-0009
pISSN - 0887-378X
DOI - 10.1111/1468-0009.12493
Subject(s) - public health , population health , health policy , population , field (mathematics) , public relations , health promotion , political science , environmental health , medicine , nursing , mathematics , pure mathematics
Policy Points The historical mission of public health is to ensure the conditions in which people can be healthy, and yet the field of public health has been distracted from this mission by an excessive reliance on randomized‐control trials, a lack of formal theoretical models, and a fear of politics. The field of population health science has emerged to rigorously address all of these constraints. It deserves ongoing and formal institutional support.