Global public health: a new era

Edited by R Beaglehole. Oxford University Press, 2003, pp 284, £29.50 (paperback). ISBN 0-19-851529-4 Plotting a roadmap for public health from the global to the national/local levels, and proposing strategies for strengthening public health in the 21st century is no small task. Indeed, this book sets out to address these rather daunting objectives. Such an ambitious and complex project is a potential minefield, in that the final product can turn out to be an incoherent and disconnected jumble. However, I am pleased to report that this book avoids such pitfalls. The different chapters, covering a representative range of expert views from developing and developed countries from all …