"Where is the future in public health?" by Hilary Graham, explores how the future is represented in contemporary public health, examining both its conceptual base and influential approaches through which evidence is generated for policy.
The author found that rather than facilitating sustained engagement with future conditions and future health, public health research is focusing on today’s population. "While their orientation to the present and near future aligns well with the compressed timescales for policy delivery on which democratic governments tend to work, it makes it difficult for the public health community to direct attention to conditions for future health." Graham emphasises the need for research perspectives and practices that, consistent with public health’s conceptual and ethical foundations, represent the interests of both tomorrow’s and today’s populations.
The Milbank Quarterly, 88(2), 2010.
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