A CRI DE COEUR AGAINST THE “MARKETISATION” OF PUBLIC HEALTH

Big questions in one of our Editorials this month from one of our board members, the highly respected Professor David Hunter, social scientist and health policy analyst, who states that the “public health community’s voice needs to be heard as an advocate for sustained political will and for the stewardship role of governments”. Implicit in Hunter’s critique is the question of whether naked free market choice is compatible with public health, and his thought provoking Editorial throws into relief the paradox of all the talk about evidence based policy and practice when so much of what is …