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WHAT IS A NATIONAL HEALTH POLICY?

Vicente Navarro, Department of Health Policy and Management,
JohnsHopkinsUniversity

International Journal of Health Services  - Volume 37, Number 1 / 2007

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Abstract: http://tinyurl.com/22qbye


“…….Unfortunately, most nation states have taken "health policy" to mean
"medical care policy." Medical care, however, is only one variable in a
nation's health equation. The article describes what the main components of
a national health policy should be, including
1)the political, economic, social, and cultural determinants of health, the
most important determinants of health in any country;
2) the lifestyle determinants, which have been the most visible types of
public interventions; and
3) the socializing and empowering determinants, which link the first and
second components of a national health policy: the individual interventions
and the collective interventions.

The author discusses the indicators that should be used for each component
and for each intervention. The feasibility of this approach depends to a
large degree on the political will of the national authorities and the
broad understanding of the actual determinants of health. A good first step
is the National Health Policy plan developed by the Swedish social
democratic government. This article builds on and expands on that model…..”



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Dr. Vicente Navarro, Department of Health Policy and Management,
JohnsHopkinsUniversity

624 North Broadway, Room 448 Baltimore, MD 21205 USA

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