This volume provides a new and innovative overview of the key debates relating to public health policy in the UK and sets out the policy implications for the future, offering a way forward based on the concept of managing for health. * A timely and innovative overview of the key debates relating to public health policy in the UK. * explains that health-care services are not the principal determinants of health, and asks why, therefore, they absorb the bulk of resources and attention of policy-makers. * Argues that a paradigm shift is needed if current health policy biases are to be confronted. * Uses examples from Europe and Canada, where a similar policy imbalance exists. * Sets out the policy implications for the future and offers a way forward based on the concept of managing for health.