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February 2006, Vol 96, No. 2 | American Journal of Public Health 208
© 2006 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2005.082529

EDITOR'S CHOICE

The Value of History to Public Health

Theodore M. Brown, PhD, Co-Editor

Public Health Then and Now, Voices From the Past, and Images of Health, Department of History, Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, Department of Medical Humanities, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY

Because this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.


Figure 1
An issue of the Journal devoted to public health innovations is a good showcase for the value of history. Innovations take place in real time and spread with variable speed, depending on the accelerating or resisting forces they encounter. They are never just flashes of new ideas; rather, they are changes in complex systems that require some time to develop and take hold. Thus, when assessing public health innovations, we all turn to a historical perspective.

Anyone can do history, but professionally trained historians bring honed skills and additional sensitivities to the task of examining public health issues from the . . . [Full Text]






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