The colourful picture of public health

Excerpt

This issue of the Journal of Public Health contains different articles in the area of public health and health sciences. Although each article is, in its difference from the others, very relevant in its very special field, all articles together add to the total picture of public health in the present issue. This is comparable to a colourful picture, which when moving closer, consists of several small photographs, that as a whole make up a mosaic. The content of each single photo can differ highly, as long as in their entirety they make up a nice picture. The same applies to a digital photograph, consisting of many tiny differently coloured pixels, one next to the other, seemingly not having anything in common, but when viewed from the distance, are all equally important to the photograph as a whole. …