Offline: Why governments should take health more seriously

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Horton, Richard
Copyright Year	2013
Abstract	The standard answer to the question “what is a health system for?” is often something to do with the prevention, control, and treatment of disease. A more positively framed answer would be the protection and promotion of health. An even more ambitious, although now somewhat tarnished, objective (plagiarising WHO’s constitution) might be achieving a state of complete physical, mental, and social wellbeing. None of these defi nitions on their own will quite do. A National Disease Service is not a compelling social objective. Protecting and promoting health alone fails to recognise the need to integrate public health with clinical services. And “complete wellbeing”? It’s a nice idea, but it is not especially helpful when trying to set out principles for why we value health. The health community rather urgently requires a convincing theory for health.
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DOI	10.1016/S0140-6736(13)60679-0
Volume Number	381
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Journal	The Lancet
Language	English
Access Restriction	Open
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