Résumé :
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[BDSP. Notice produite par IRDES UM1R0x6C. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. Unfortunately, most nation states have taken "health policy" to mean "medical care policy". Medical care, however, is only one variable in an a nation's health equation. The article describes what the main components of a health policy should be, including 1) the political, economic, social, and cultural determinants of health, the most important determinants of health in any country ; 2) the lifestyle determinants which have been the most visible types of public interventions ; and 3) the socializing and empowering determinants, which link the first and second components of a national health policy : the individual interventions and the collective interventions. The authors discusses the indicators that should be used for each component and for each intervention. The feasibility of the approach depends to a large degree of political will of the national authorities and the broad understanding of the actual determinants of health. A good first step is the National Health Policy plan developed by the Swedish social democracy government. This article builds on and expands on that model.
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