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Creating a healthy public

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  • Keck, C.W.

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Significant change in thought and action will be required for our health system to become capable of serving all citizens effectively. Reliance on market forces and political expediency to shape health policy has focused attention inappropriately on finding ways to pay for illness care rather than maximizing health status. This misdirection of thought and effort has led many of us to search for ways to assure that health policy decisions are consistently based on both science and an ethic of humane concern. Courageous and disciplined local leadership will be needed to motivate policymakers to focus on the task of creating a healthy public. Linkage of academicians and practitioners with the public in a manner than empowers communities to assess and prioritize their own health problems could foster a strong community- based demand for ethical and humane decision making. Constituent demand for improved health status could provide the support politicians need if they are to legislate a national health program that emphasizes health promotion and disease prevention as well as illness care.

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  • Keck, C.W., 1992. "Creating a healthy public," American Journal of Public Health, American Public Health Association, vol. 82(9), pages 1206-1209.
    • Handle: RePEc:aph:ajpbhl:1992:82:9:1206-1209_1
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