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April 2007, Vol 97, No. Supplement_1 | American Journal of Public Health S93-S97
© 2007 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2006.094623

TOWARD A PREPARED FUTURE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH

The Role of the Public Health Official in Communicating Public Health Information

Enrique Regidor, PhD, Luis de la Fuente, PhD, Juan L. Gutiérrez-Fisac, PhD, Salvador de Mateo, PhD, Cruz Pascual, BSc, José Sánchez-Payá, PhD and Elena Ronda, PhD

Enrique Regidor and Cruz Pascual are with the Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain. Luis de la Fuente and Salvador de Mateo are with the Center National for Epidemiology, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid. Juan L. Gutiérrez-Fisac is with the Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid. José Sánchez-Payá is with Service of Preventive Medicine, Hospital Universitario de Alicante, Alicante, Spain. Elena Ronda is with the Department of Public Health, Universidad de Alicante, Alicante.

Correspondence: Requests for reprint should sent to Enrique Regidor, Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Ciudad Universitaria s/n, 28040 Madrid, Spain (e-mail: enriqueregidor{at}hotmail.com).

ABSTRACT

The prevailing views on the role of public health professionals refer to professionals in the academic world, without taking into account the fact that many public health professionals are government employees. For example, the American Public Health Association states that public health professionals play an active role in communicating public health information to nonscientific audiences, such as the general population or the mass media.

We propose that public health officials have an important responsibility to promote the practice of public health. However, they must do so within the bureaucracy. Any actions that public health officials wish to take as advocates of particular public health activities should be carried out independent of their role as government officials.






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