TY - JOUR T1 - SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING NEW JF - Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health JO - J Epidemiol Community Health SP - 161 LP - 161 DO - 10.1136/jech.57.3.161 VL - 57 IS - 3 AU - John R Ashton AU - Carlos Alvarez-Dardet Y1 - 2003/03/01 UR - http://jech.bmj.com/content/57/3/161.1.abstract N2 - In this issue we carry a Glossary of public health history that may prove controversial; debate is welcome. Speaker’s Corner addresses the challenge of providing a systematic evidence base to tackle inequalities in health, something that becomes evermore pressing as the limitations of biomedical evaluation become apparent. This is reinforced by a rare contribution on social inequalities in health in the United States from Harvard. An optimistic note on public health aspects of … ER -