Mapping communicable disease control administration in the UK

This report by David Rowland examines the UK’s public health infrastructure in the round, identifying the structures of public health protection across the four systems and their relationships with the EU and local government. It goes on to raise questions about coordination of the system following devolution and looks at how policy makers have responded to disease control problems in light of the changing nature of the state.

Little research has been published on this subject so far, and the full public health map as presented here will be useful for researchers, practitioners and policy makers as public health moves up the political agenda.