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Correspondence to Author: Dr. Alexander Kraemer

Professor, School of Public Health, Bielefeld University, Germany, E Mail: alexander.kraemer@uni-bielefeld.de

DOI: 10.52338/tajoph.2025.4656

Abstract:

Public health is the science aimed at protecting and improving the health of communities and populations. It is interdisciplinary, taking concepts from medicine, the social sciences, the environmental sciences etc. Historically, public health had emerged in Germany and England around the turn of the last century as social welfare after and during the industrialization in these countries (see Rudolf Virchow as one of the founders of Social Medicine). In the Third Reich under Hitler Public Health in Germany then degenerated into racial hygiene, and after the Second World War academic Public Health no longer existed in the country for several decades. There were only rudimentary forms left as chairs for epidemiology and biometry within medical schools and later some health economics institutions. Academic reconstruction of Public Health in Germany did not start before the 80s.

Citation:

Dr. Alexander Kraemer. Experience With Reconstructing Public Health In Germany: A Difficult Relationship To The Medical Field. The American Journal of Public Health. 2025.