Moving upstream: the dilemma of securing health in health policy
Moving upstream: the dilemma of securing health in health policy
This chapter examines the wider public health debates that are gathering pace in many countries that have concluded that merely funding health systems as presently configured is unsustainable. It explains that that most of the gains in population health have less to do with health care services and more to do with factors and policies outside health care. It suggests that health services alone are insufficient on their own and in the absence of an ecological approach to health that recognises the importance of structural determinants on health.
Keywords: health debate, health systems, population health, health care services, ecological approach, health determinants
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