History of Public Health in Alberta 1919-2019

<p>Public health is diffuse divided and poorly understood. As a policy and practice public health promotes and protects people and communities. As a field of academic inquiry it provides deep insights into the ways individuals and collectives can work within societies to prevent disease and promote health and health equity. Public health is a broad intersectoral and interdisciplinary field of scholarship activism policy and practice with the potential to create and support immense change. </p> <p>This is a story of one hundred years of public health in Alberta. Drawing on extensive research including interviews with members of Alberta's public health communities <em>A History of Public Health in Alberta 1919-2019</em> considers institutions sectors populations and activities that constitute the study and practice of public health. It offers a consolidated narrative from a contemporary perspective paying particular attention to significant and entrenched social inequities of health and their determinants the emergence of new public health concerns and communities of public health including activists practitioners scholars and the public itself. </p> <p><em>A History of Public Health in Alberta 1919-2019</em> draws together the threads of public health policy practice and research mapping its contours and presenting a holistic view of public health in the province over time. Prompted by the concern and the experience that public health is frequently deeply misunderstood this book articulates a history of the field and practice essential to understanding how we may best mobilize to support well-being and health equity across populations.</p>