Session: Using History to Explore the Public in Public Policy, Part 2

The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA

3321.0: Monday, November 11, 2002: 4:30 PM-6:00 PM

Oral

Using History to Explore the Public in Public Policy, Part 2

This panel will consider the relationship of the public to public health historically. At times, the public or different segments of the public-immigrants, the poor, racial and ethnic minorities, groups with particular diseases such as tuberculosis or smallpox-have been at the mercy of public health. At other times, portions of the public have clashed with public health authorities or controlled the public health agenda. In other instances, however, different stakeholders like physicians and elected officials have mediated or advocated on behalf of the public. The papers in this panel raise questions, then, regarding who should appropriately define policy for the community, how has the community inserted itself into or been represented in policy debates, and how has the relationship between the public and public health changed over time and place?

Learning Objectives: Refer to the individual abstracts for learning objectives

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organizer(s):

Amy Fairchild

Presider(s):

Amy Fairchild

4:30 PM

Private Spheres and Public Health - The Contours of Tuberculosis Surveillance Among African Americans, 1896-1915
Samuel K. Roberts, PhD

4:50 PM

Power of the "Public" in the Art of the Possible
Cynthia A. Connolly, PhD, RN

5:10 PM

Commentary on Two Centuries of Putting the Public into Public Health
Charles Rosenberg, PhD