Who does the work of public health?

¹National Black Women's Health Project, 600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Suite 310, Washington, DC 20003, USA.

|March 29, 2002

Abstract:

Frequently, we take the "public" out of public health and allow the practice to become extremely narrow, limited to experts telling the public what's best for them.

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