Getting the temperature of public health advocacy porridge ‘just right’

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Getting the temperature of public health advocacy porridge ‘just right’

Tim Tenbensel 2022

Tim Tenbensel

Public health documents
Just a handful of the advice documents produced by the Public Health Commission during its short life in the 1990s

Tim Tenbensel looks at the pros and cons for a stand-alone public health agency to kick-start life into public health policy and action

To put it bluntly, if you know you have powerful political adversaries, it’s probably not the best strategy to yell “come and get me” at the first ava