Health, wellbeing, and care should be top of everyone’s political agenda

Rae, Maggie; Middleton, John

doi:10.1136/bmj.l6503

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“…In the lead up to the 2019 general election, political debate was dominated by promises to build and renovate hospitals, which are judged to hold greater popular appeal than helping people stay healthy and well. [29][30][31] During the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, hospital services were given priority. During August 2020, the service responsible for all aspects of public health and prevention (including infectious and non-communicable diseases), Public Health England, was disbanded and replaced by a new National Institute for Health Protection (NIPH).…”

Section: Prevention Is Ancillary To Curementioning

confidence: 99%

The affordable dream

Dye¹

2021

The Great Health Dilemma

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Prevention is integral to achieving health equity and Universal Health Coverage. And yet prevention is a healthcare orphan: it is not usually a priority in the health sector or in any other sector of government. This chapter suggests five ways to redress that disadvantage: give prevention and public health budgets that are separate and protected from medical services, based on demonstrated benefits; define the goals of prevention in collaboration with, and considering the objectives and values held by, those who make the decisions; reassess the value for money provided by preventive methods that presently command large budgets, such as ‘healthy condition monitoring’; stimulate latent public demand for prevention by improving access to screening programmes, calibrating health insurance to favour prevention, and through workplace health promotion schemes, among others; and improve the appeal of prevention across the whole of government (beyond the health sector), using evidence to reinforce the long-standing goal of putting ‘Health in All Policies’.

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Section: Prevention Is Ancillary To Curementioning

confidence: 99%

The affordable dream

Dye¹

2021

The Great Health Dilemma

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“…We need a new, and major Public Health Act that shows how our society will address the unacceptable causes of inequality in health, which are caused by economic, environmental, and educational inequality. At the very least, we need to see health at the centre of all policy making 29. We need leadership for health and a vision that sees health as the highest law, and the highest policy objective.…”

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“…At the very least, we need to see health at the centre of all policy making. 29 We need leadership for health and a vision that sees health as the highest law, and the highest policy objective.…”

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