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Public Health Planning and Policy Change

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In 1988 the Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) Committee for the Study of the Future of Public Health identified two factors that determine problem solving in public health in the United States: (1) the level of scientific and technical knowledge, and (2) the content of public values and popular opinions. Given few would dispute the wealth of science and technical knowledge accumulated over the past century of public health practice, this chapter focuses on the more public aspects of planning, which are socioeconomic and political.

The good, the bad, the ugly. That’s America. You gotta deal with it!

Bill Cosby (1996)

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    Sana Loue

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Riedel, R.L. (1998). Public Health Planning and Policy Change. In: Loue, S. (eds) Handbook of Immigrant Health. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1936-6_30

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