The field of public health encompasses an enormous range of health areas: this includes health education and promotion, occupational health, impacts of environmental factors on health, nutrition, transport, urban planning and so on. This diversity is reflected in the World Health Organization’s ‘Health in All Policies approach’, in which public policies across all sectors take into account the health implications of decisions, seek synergies, and avoids harmful health impacts in order to improve population health and health equity.
Public health policies are developed through highly complex processes that involve multiple levels of government and stakeholders with diverse needs and interests. In this context, developing effective health policies that promote health equity across populations, requires that policy-makers address social determinants of health such as economic opportunities, access to healthcare services, and more.
This Research Topic invites experts in public health and global health policy to submit Opinion pieces on the following thematic areas:
• Climate change and health policies: health implications of climate change for individuals, the health sector and health policies;
• Population mobility: implications of migration on the health of individuals, disease patterns and for health policies and practices;
• Emerging health threats: evidence for policies and responses to current and future health threats associated with infectious diseases, particularly pandemics, and non-communicable diseases;
• Global and regional health policies: global health policy gaps, policy development, international co-ordination and implementation;
•Policy addressing inequalities in health
The field of public health encompasses an enormous range of health areas: this includes health education and promotion, occupational health, impacts of environmental factors on health, nutrition, transport, urban planning and so on. This diversity is reflected in the World Health Organization’s ‘Health in All Policies approach’, in which public policies across all sectors take into account the health implications of decisions, seek synergies, and avoids harmful health impacts in order to improve population health and health equity.
Public health policies are developed through highly complex processes that involve multiple levels of government and stakeholders with diverse needs and interests. In this context, developing effective health policies that promote health equity across populations, requires that policy-makers address social determinants of health such as economic opportunities, access to healthcare services, and more.
This Research Topic invites experts in public health and global health policy to submit Opinion pieces on the following thematic areas:
• Climate change and health policies: health implications of climate change for individuals, the health sector and health policies;
• Population mobility: implications of migration on the health of individuals, disease patterns and for health policies and practices;
• Emerging health threats: evidence for policies and responses to current and future health threats associated with infectious diseases, particularly pandemics, and non-communicable diseases;
• Global and regional health policies: global health policy gaps, policy development, international co-ordination and implementation;
•Policy addressing inequalities in health
