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Chapter 13 brings everything that has been discussed in previous chapters together. It provides three detailed case studies, which consider much of the content of the book in relation to specific and contemporary public-health challenges. The individual case studies are about malaria, cervical cancer, neighbourhoods and strategies to tackle COVID-19. Each case study introduces the issue in depth and then considers ways in which health might be promoted in relation to it. The chapter then considers Dahlgren and Whitehead’s determinants of health rainbow framework critically and in some depth, examining its strengths and how it might be improved upon. This chapter will be useful to those working in the public-health field because it demonstrates the application of different schools of knowledge to specific health problems. Consequently, readers gain practice-related insights here, as well as the ability to build upon the theoretical understandings provided across the earlier chapters.