The Five Health Frontiers: A New Radical Blueprint

By Christopher Thomas

Book Overview

'A brilliant expos?' - Danny Dorling

Covid-19 has exposed the limits of a neoliberal public health orthodoxy. But instead of imagining radical change, the left is stuck in a rearguard action focused on defending the NHS from the wrecking ball of privatization.

Public health expert Christopher Thomas argues that we must emerge from Covid-19 on the offensive - with a bold, new vision for our health and care. He maps out five new frontiers for public health and imagines how we can move beyond safeguarding what we have to a radical expansion of the principles put forward by Aneurin Bevan, the founder of the NHS, over 70 years ago.

Beyond recalibrating our approach to healthcare services, his blueprint includes a fundamental redesign of our economy through Public Health Net Zero; a bold new universal public health service fit to address the real causes of ill health; and a major recalibration in the efforts against the epidemiological reality of an era of pandemics.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745343929
• ISBN13: 9780745343921
• Release Date: January 2022
• Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 8.5"