Part 1 Agendas for a new public health: individuals, politics and society - a dilemma for public health research?, Frank Bechhofer; preventive medicine and public health - England and Wales 1870-1914, David Blane; building the new public health - a public health alliance and a new social epidemiology, Alex Scott-Samuel; can health be promoted?, Julian Little. Part 2 Inequalities in health: the West of Scotland twenty-07 - health in the community, Sally MacIntyre and study team; health inequality in later life - age, gender or class?, Christina Victor; conditions of labour and women's health, Jennie Popay and Mel Bartley. Part 3 Personal behaviour and the public health: the public health implications of private cars, Sonja Hunt; health behaviour and health promotion in youth, Pamela Gillies; AIDS, homosexual men and behavioural change, Graham Hart; public health and private lives, Kathryn Backett; health behaviour & lifestyles of young mothers, Rosemarie Klesse and Ute Sonntag; beyond idividual choice - tobacco in the public health movement, Amanda Amos and Antonia Ineson. Part 4 Information and the public health: use of national survey to change the public health - Canada's health promotion survey, Irving Rootman; a public health information database - the RAMIS network, Bernard Pissaro; prevention indicators for health promotion, Heather Roberts and Valerie Gillies; the need for change in information, organization and resources - a study of housing dampness and respiratory illness, Sarah Curtis and Sophie Hyndman; the public health response to the Chernobyl disaster, Graham Bickler and Lesley Morrison. Part 5 Professional behaviour - new roles and structures: the political dimension of health promotion work, Michael O'Neill; community health promotion strategies, Ronald Labonte; community associations in Hamburg and their significance for health, Alf Trojan; the progress of a community development approach in one health district - from street work to district policy, Jean Spray and Karen Greenwood. Part 6 Community health initiatives: creating healthy cities, John Ashton, participation in practice - an example from Belfast, Pauline Ginnety, et al; health meeting centre in Bremen, Christel Zenker and Rosemarie Klesse; the community health resource unit - a local initiative in Glasgow, David Cill-Mhuire; evaluation of a community health project - the experience from West Granton, Edinburgh, Neil Drummond.
