Das Gesundheitswesen
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In a state of the art paper a four step approach is made in order to investigate the question why public health research is necessary at all. 1. Expectations concerning public health research: The classical topics of public health research will continue to be relevant. Additionally, health promotion especially for low income and other risk groups should become important. ⋯ Expectations to public health research concern the transfer of public health into other areas of science, the establishment of new institutions and teaching programmes and its inter-disciplinarity. Deficits exist in the selection of relevant topics and in the innovative power of projects. 4. Proposals for further public health actions refer to politically dominant issues which are to be defined by consensus conferences.