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•Creating supportive environments for health
•Strengthening community action for health
•Developing personal skills
•Reorientation of health services
•Building healthy public policies
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•Economic development must seek to increase quality of life and not just gross national product
•The most sensitive indicator of a society’s quality of life is the health of its poor and other vulnerable groups
•The achievement of equal access to resources for health should be high among the goals of economic development
•Health services alone cannot equalise opportunities for health
•Health equity, health for all requites the collaboration of all policy sectors, especially those concerned with economics, agriculture, and food, education and information, and environment and habitat.
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•Tackling inequalities in health
•Supportive environments
•Access to health enhancing goods and services
•Unique culture of indigenous peoples, ethnic minorities, immigrants
•Equal access to health services
•Various health challenges: technology, ecological interactions, globalisation
•Consultation and negotiation
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•Focuses on the broader determinants of health
•Not a lifestyle approach
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Category of public policy issues, not with moral wickedness, but with a high level of complexity
HEST 3127. Building Healthy Public Policyl. Nov 2013
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http://www.dh.gov.uk/health/category/policy-areas/public-health/