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The European Journal of Public Health Advance Access originally published online on March 5, 2009
The European Journal of Public Health 2009 19(2):130; doi:10.1093/eurpub/ckp019
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© The Author 2009. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Public Health Association. All rights reserved.

Editorials

The practising public health researcher

Sijmen A. Reijneveld

Department of Health Sciences, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, The Netherlands

Correspondence: Sijmen A. Reijneveld, Professor of Public health, University Medical Center Groningen, The Netherlands, e-mail: s.a.reijneveld@med.umcg.nl

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Progress in public health practice has often been reached by professionals who worked in routine practice and solved the problems they met with scientific methods. A classic example is John Snow's intervention in the London cholera epidemic, closing a water pump after analysing the spread of cholera cases.1 However, the expansion of the knowledge base of public health leaves to be answered whether this combination of work in practice and scientific research . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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