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Responsibility for health: personal, social, and environmental: Table 1

Year: 2007

Type: article

Abstract: Most of the discussion in bioethics and health policy concerning social responsibility for health has focused on society's obligation to provide access to healthcare. While ensuring access to healthcare is an important social responsibility, societies can promote health in many other ways, such as through sanitation, pollution control, food and drug safety, health education, disease surveillance, urban planning and occupational health. Greater attention should be paid to strategies for health promotion other than access to healthcare, such as environmental and public health and health research.

Source: Journal of Medical Ethics

DOI: 10.1136/jme.2006.017574

Author: D B Resnik

Institutions: National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

Language: English

Topic: Public Health Policies and Education

Subfield: General Health Professions

Field: Health Professions

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

Funders: Australian Government, National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences