Decisions on investing in health as well as other policies require deciding how to best allocate available resources … benefit-cost analysis is its emphasis on explicitly accounting for all significant outcomes (both health and non-health) and …

Bentham, championed reforms that form part of the Public Health Act of 1848, which led to the primacy of sanitation efforts … (such as pressurised water supply, sewage management, and garbage collection and safe disposal) in public health policy in … the UK and elsewhere. Maclean convinced the Sanitarians that quarantines were not grounded in health science but instead …

through the publication of scientific research papers on a range of topics related to public health with particular relevance … evidence? Editorial: Continuing progress in the priority health areas: actions for Member States and WHO; Confidenti …