Contemporary public health advocacy promotes a ‘fifth wave of public health’: a ‘cultural’ shift wherein the public's health becomes recognized as a common good, to
be realized through concerted developments in the institutional, social, and physical environments. [...]
The Public Services (Social Value) Act 2012 introduces a social value duty. It requires public authorities in England and Wales that are carrying out procurement activities
to ‘consider’ how such activities might ‘improve … economic, social and environmental well‐being’. [...]
