Journal of Public Health | Vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 1 | doi:10.1093/pubmed/fdn012 Editorial It is a great privilege to take on editorship of the Journal of Public Health that look in depth at the causes of disease and, in the light The Journal of Public Health focuses on the theory and Downloaded from https://academic.oup.com/jpubhealth/article/30/1/1/1577493 by guest on 27 September 2021 practice of the whole spectrum of public health across the of this, how to prevent illness and promote good health. domains of health improvement, health protection and Surveillance of communicable as well as chronic complex service improvement, with a particular focus on the trans- diseases are within the Journal’s remit, as are the monitoring lation of science into action. We aim to promote the highest and study of environmental hazards. The journal also covers standards of public health practice internationally through planning, provision and evaluation of health services, in the the timely communication of current, best scientific context of systems of care. evidence. However, we also wish to introduce more debate into the This issue includes articles highlighting the importance of journal, and to broaden the content of the journal to child health on long term patterns of health, with a systema- embrace discourse about the role of public health ethics and tic review of childhood experiences of violence on adult law, and the intersection of the arts and humanities with behaviour. The challenges of dealing with health in an public health practice. As part of this change we will be increasingly multicultural society are highlighted, with a introducing in the next issue two new features, Perspectives, study examining how primary prevention for diabetes and which will present critical views on controversies in public heart disease can be undertaken in ethnically diverse health practice, policy and politics in an analytic essay schools, and another how routine data can be used to look format, and Chekhov’s corner, which will contain articles at ethnic differentials in access to revascularisation. exploring the arts and humanities and public health practice. As always in public health practice, issues of tobacco and Regular contributions from the National Institute for alcohol are never far from the surface and there are papers Clinical Excellence, the Cochrane Collaborative Review addressing binge drinking in female students and how NHS Group in Public Health and the Health Protection Agency staff deal with smoke free regulation. Given the recent UK will provide a regular update on key public health outputs and Hong Kong outbreaks of norovirus, the paper looking from these groups. in depth at the quality of European surveillance systems of We very much look forward to engaging with the public this disease is particularly timely. health community in developing and shaping the journal to We are in the process of introducing incremental changes meet your needs. to the Journal, to make it more focused on translating Professor Selena Gray research into practice, and more internationally relevant, pro- University of the West of England, Bristol, UK viding evidence to underpin public health practice in a wide Professor Gabriel Leung variety of different settings. We will continue to seek papers The University of Hong Kong # The Author 2008, Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Faculty of Public Health. All rights reserved 1.