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Public health skills are now more in demand than at any time in
the past. Many health professionals have a very real and urgent need to
develop the skills for managing health at a population level. This is
especially true in primary care where a population perspective has
always been important. In addition, clinicians in secondary care are
required to demonstrate their population, management, and research
skills to fulfil a role where team working and skill mixing are
increasingly important. Lastly, we are all under increasing pressure to
identify where we can contribute best, and how our skills need
developing in order to be able to do that. Public health skills add
breadth and enable use of existing specialist skills more efficiently
and effectively. There are simply not enough dedicated public health
professionals to do all that could be done. Relationships between
public health professionals and practising clinicians are often
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