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The population health approach in historical perspective

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The origin of the population health approach is an historic debate over the relationship between economic growth and human health. In Britain and France, the Industrial Revolution disrupted population health and stimulated pioneering epidemiological studies, informing the early preventive public health movement. A century-long process of political adjustment between the forces of liberal democracy and propertied interests ensued. The 20th-century welfare states resulted as complex political mechanisms for converting economic growth into enhanced population health. However, the rise of a "neoliberal" agenda, denigrating the role of government, has once again brought to the fore the importance of prevention and a population health approach to map and publicize the health impacts of this new phase of "global" economic growth.

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  • Szreter, S., 2003. "The population health approach in historical perspective," American Journal of Public Health, American Public Health Association, vol. 93(3), pages 421-431.
    • Handle: RePEc:aph:ajpbhl:2003:93:3:421-431_4
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    1. Simon Szreter & Graham Mooney, 2021. "Scarlet fever and nineteenth‐century mortality trends: a reply to Romola Davenport," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 74(4), pages 1087-1095, November.
    2. Adolfo Meisel-Roca & Juliana Jaramillo-Echeverri & María Teresa Ramírez-Giraldo, 2018. "Más de cien años de avances en el nivel de vida: El caso de Colombia," Cuadernos de Historia Económica 46, Banco de la Republica de Colombia.
    3. Romola J. Davenport, 2021. "Nineteenth‐century mortality trends: a reply to Szreter and Mooney," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 74(4), pages 1096-1110, November.
    4. Sullivan, Dylan & Hickel, Jason, 2023. "Capitalism and extreme poverty: a global analysis of real wages, human height, and mortality since the long 16th century," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 117731, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    5. Jane Jenson, 2008. "Getting to Sewers and Sanitation: Doing Public Health within Nineteenth-Century Britain's Citizenship Regimes," Politics & Society, , vol. 36(4), pages 532-556, December.
    6. Megan Oakey & David C. Evans & Tobin T. Copley & Mojgan Karbakhsh & Diana Samarakkody & Jeff R. Brubacher & Samantha Pawer & Alex Zheng & Fahra Rajabali & Murray Fyfe & Ian Pike, 2021. "Development of Policy-Relevant Indicators for Injury Prevention in British Columbia by the Key Decision-Makers," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(22), pages 1-12, November.
    7. Juliana Jaramillo-Echeverri & Adolfo Meisel-Roca & María Teresa Ramírez-Giraldo, 2017. "More than One Hundred Years of Improvements in Living Standards: the Case of Colombia," Borradores de Economia 1027, Banco de la Republica de Colombia.
    8. Pauline Vaillancourt Rosenau, 2009. "Health Policy and Healthy Populations: An Introduction to a Special Issue of the Social Science Quarterly," Social Science Quarterly, Southwestern Social Science Association, vol. 90(5), pages 1039-1050, December.

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