The Public Health Professional: A Marginal Man

K. Studies Related to Professional Personnel and Services

“…(24) His explanation was that public health workers straddle two worlds: that of the health professional giving care and that of the governmental and voluntary agency, with the former having higher prestige and esteem. Although they are educated to perceive themselves as operating in one system of action, public health workers find themselves working in another; so it is not surprising that they have a diffuse image of their roles.…”