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Health Promotion International 2005 20(2):101-103; doi:10.1093/heapro/dai016
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EDITORIALS

The Health Society: Importance of the new policy proposal by the EU Commission on Health and Consumer Affairs

Ilona Kickbusch, Chair, Editorial Board

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As health expands in modern societies, the role of the citizen in health gains increasing importance. This role has many facets: as an individual who takes care of her own health, as a consumer in the health market place, as a patient in the health care system, as a voter on health care issues, and as a social activist or volunteer together with others in Non Governmental Organizations and social movements.

In this context, the access to knowledge and information plays an ever-larger role in managing health and disease. Health systems and health plans are becoming more complex to navigate, treatment options need to be considered, complex drug regimes need to be adhered to, living wills need to be drawn up, and healthy lifestyles need to be lived. Every visit to the supermarket demands health choices, every decision to take the car rather than . . . [Full Text of this Article]

A NEW POLICY APPROACH IN THE EUROPEAN UNION

THE HEALTH SOCIETY

THE MOVE TOWARDS COMBINED HEALTH AND CONSUMER POLICIES


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