Affiliation:
1. Research Unit in Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, Australia
Abstract
The balance of individual and corporate responsibility in health promotion is considered. It is concluded that, if left to their own devices, individuals have a very limited capacity to make choices relevant to their health; a government that seeks to obtain social justice for its constituency has the right to regulate any behaviour that may detract from the objective of maximum Health for All; governments should act to control health hazards, foster balance in behaviours that has both health benefits and health hazards to offer, and promote behaviours that are wholly beneficial; and that the exercise of individual choice for health requires a situation in which the best choice follows as the most natural consequence of these surroundings-surroundings which, for most part, are determined as much by others, including governments, as by individuals themselves.
Subject
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
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3 articles.
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