Who is a public health professional?
A public health professional is a superspecialist who is a medical or social science graduate trained to view medicine as a social science, with expertise in epidemiology and preventive-promotive medicine. A PH professional acknowledges and incorporates in practice the socio-economic and political roots of health. This conception of a PH professional emerged, ironically enough, in the medical schools of the US and UK. By the 1960s, the public health professional most often came to connote, in common parlance, a sanitary inspector dealing with water supply and sanitation. Preventive and social medicine as a postgraduate specialisation settled into a low value option. TB: gravest danger to India Univeral care – miles to go The initiative is backed by several US universities specialising in public health and garnering funds from a number corporates and international funding agencies. And somewhat predictably, it has come in for sharp criticism not as much for its objectives or content, as
