Includes bibliographical references and index.

The rise of modern multidisciplinary public health -- Millennium report to sir Edwin Chadwick -- How is health experienced? -- Older people's health: applying Antonovsky's Salutogenic paradigm -- Inequalities and ethnicity: evidence and intervention -- Poverty and health: global and national patterns -- Health impact assessment: a practitioner's view -- Health promotion: not drowning but waving? -- Putting social marketing into practice -- Dilemmas in public health research: methodologies and ethical practice -- The evaluation of health promotion practice: 21st century debates on evidence and effectiveness -- Epidemiology - to be taken with care -- Feminist research and health -- Researching the views of diabetes service users from south Asian backgrounds: a reflection on some of the issues -- Setting priorities in public health research -- What would the Ottawa charter look like if it were written today? -- Prisons in England and Wales: an important public health opportunity? -- Considerations in the prevention of obesity among children and adolescents: first, do no harm -- Global public health -- Terrorism and public health -- Global health promotion: how can we strengthen governance and build effective strategies? -- Perceptions of community participation and health gain in a community project for the south Asian population: a qualitative study -- Healthy nightclubs and recreational substance use: from a harm minimisation to a healthy settings approach -- Dirty whores and invisible men: sex work and the public health -- Does social capital have a role to play in the health of communities? -- Evaluating the empowering potential of community-based health schemes: the case of community health policies in the UK since 1997 -- Promoting social responsibility for health: health impact assessment and healthy public policy at the community level -- Health promotion, globalisation and health -- The market dominated future of public health? -- Yoga and promoting public health -- Death and contagion: contaminating bodies -- Disability rights, genetics and public health -- Mental health promotion -- Community regeneration: from apathy to anger to positive energy.