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PROMOTING THE PUBLIC'S HEALTHReorienting health policies, linking health promotion and health care. Conclusions drawn from the 2005 EUPHA conference in Graz
Horst NoackEUPHA President 2005-2006
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The 13th European Conference on Public Health held from 10 to 12 November 2005 in Graz attracted some 900 public health researchers, policy experts and practitioners from all continents. A conference book1 highlighting the outcomes of what turned out to be a highly stimulating scientific meeting is going to be published by mid-November 2006.
The annual EUPHA conferences seem to have a great potential to promote the professional discourse of the international public health community, though their contribution to the development of the field has never been assessed. This book is intended as a contribution to this discourse, as a part of the international public health process, and one that the readers will hopefully also find interesting and informative from the scientific point of view.
Conference books are inherently a difficult genre. The editors of the Graz conference book have attempted to avoid publishing a conference report of merely a