Reclaiming comprehensive public health

Affiliations

¹ Training and Research Support Centre, Harare, Zimbabwe rene@tarsc.org.
² Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerpen, Belgium.
³ Health department, Sarvodaya Gram Udyog Seva Sansthan, Noida, India.
⁴ The George Institute for Global Health, University of New South Wales, Newtown, New South Wales, Australia.
⁵ Public Health, Health Education England North West, St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Prescot, Merseyside, UK.
⁶ School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, Western Cape, South Africa.
⁷ Instituto de Salud Pública, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile.
⁸ Nuffield Centre for International Health and Development, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
⁹ Department of Public Health, Environments and Society, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
¹⁰ BRAC James P Grant School of Public Health, BRAC University, Dhaka, Dhaka District, Bangladesh.
¹¹ Public Health, Universitas Sebelas Maret, Surakarta, Jawa Tengah, Indonesia.
¹² Global Health, Save the Children Federation, Washington, DC, USA.
¹³ Department of Health Policy, Planning and Management, Makerere University School of Public Health, Kampala, Uganda.
¹⁴ Centre for Rural Health, University of KwaZulu-Natal College of Health Sciences, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

Rene Loewenson et al. BMJ Glob Health. 2020 Sep.

. 2020 Sep;5(9):e003886.

doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2020-003886.

¹ Training and Research Support Centre, Harare, Zimbabwe rene@tarsc.org.
² Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerpen, Belgium.
³ Health department, Sarvodaya Gram Udyog Seva Sansthan, Noida, India.
⁴ The George Institute for Global Health, University of New South Wales, Newtown, New South Wales, Australia.
⁵ Public Health, Health Education England North West, St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Prescot, Merseyside, UK.
⁶ School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, Western Cape, South Africa.
⁷ Instituto de Salud Pública, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile.
⁸ Nuffield Centre for International Health and Development, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
⁹ Department of Public Health, Environments and Society, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
¹⁰ BRAC James P Grant School of Public Health, BRAC University, Dhaka, Dhaka District, Bangladesh.
¹¹ Public Health, Universitas Sebelas Maret, Surakarta, Jawa Tengah, Indonesia.
¹² Global Health, Save the Children Federation, Washington, DC, USA.
¹³ Department of Health Policy, Planning and Management, Makerere University School of Public Health, Kampala, Uganda.
¹⁴ Centre for Rural Health, University of KwaZulu-Natal College of Health Sciences, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

No abstract available

Keywords: health policy; health systems; public health.

Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: None declared.

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