RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Sick individuals and sick populations: 20 years later
JF Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health
JO J Epidemiol Community Health
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd
SP 396
OP 398
DO 10.1136/jech.2005.042770
VO 60
IS 5
A1 Doyle, Y G
A1 Furey, A
A1 Flowers, J
YR 2006
UL http://jech.bmj.com/content/60/5/396.abstract
AB Twenty years after Geoffrey Rose published his classic paper, the central messages remain highly relevant to modern public health policy and practice. The individual and population approaches are fundamentally different but both are needed. Recent examples of powerful population approaches prove Rose’s point that norms can change benefiting the most deprived. Individual approaches have also succeeded but their protection of the most deprived communities is limited. Consumerism in health and over-reliance on individual approaches risk widening health inequalities.