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Vitha Apriliana Lontaan
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Administrasi Kebijakan Kesehatan
Adelaide Recommendations on Healthy
Public Policy
Second International Conference on Health Promotion,
Adelaide, South Australia, 5-9 April 1988
Healthy Public Policy
Healthy
public policy is characterized by an explicit concern for health and equity in
all areas of policy and by an accountability for health impact. The main aim of
health public policy is to create a supportive environment to enable people to
lead healthy lives. Such a policy makes health choices possible or easier for
citizens. It makes social and physical environments health-enhancing. In the
pursuit of healthy public policy, government sectors concerned with
agriculture, trade, education, industry, and communications need to take into
account health as an essential factor when formulating policy. These sectors
should be accountable for the health consequences of their policy decisions.
They should pay as much attention to health as to economic considerations.
The value of health
Health
is both a fundamental human right and a sound social investment. Governments
need to invest resources in healthy public policy and health promotion in order
to raise the health status of all their citizens. A basic principle of social
justice is to ensure that people have access to the essentials for a healthy
and satisfying life. At the same time, this raises overall societal
productivity in both social and economic terms. Healthy public policy in the
short term will lead to long-term economic benefits as shown by the case
studies presented a this Conference. New efforts must be made to link economic,
social, and health policies into integrated action.
Equity, access and development
Inequalities
in health are rooted in inequities in society. Closing the health gap between
socially and educationally disadvantaged people and more advantaged people
requires a policy that will improve access to health-enhancing goods and
services, and create supportive environments. Such a policy would assign high
priority to underprivileged and vulnerable groups. Furthermore, a healthy
public policy recognizes the unique culture of indigenous peoples, ethnic
minorities, and immigrants. Equal access to health services, particularly
community health care, is a vital aspect of equity in health.
New
inequalities in health may follow rapid structural change caused by emerging
technologies. The first target of the European Region of the World Health
Organization, in moving towards Health for All is that:
"by
the year 2000 the actual differences in health status between countries and
between groups within countries should be reduced by at least 25% by improving
the level of health of disadvantaged nations and groups."
In
view of the large health gaps between countries, which this Conference has
examined, the developed countries have an obligation to ensure that their own
policies have a positive health impact on developing nations. The Conference
recommends that all countries develop healthy public policies that explicitly
address this issue.
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