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Performance for Health

Performance for Health JOURNAL OF THE R OYAL SOCIETY O F M EDICINE V o lu me 98 Febru a ry 2005 JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF MEDICINE February 2005 Volume 98 Number 2 ISSN 0141-0768 will it take for these populations to ‘choose health’, and for the NHS to perform as well on health as it has on healthcare? We might learn from what has been tried already. A population characterized by systematic deprivation, In November 2004 the UK Government published a White absorbed in day-to-day survival and unkeen on officialdom, Paper about health in England. Behind it lies the notion is not easily engaged. A first step is to secure local political that, in general, consumers wish to make their own choices commitment to common objectives, and this itself is a time- for health but that they need help in coping with adverse consuming and complex task. The outcomes sought, such as factors—such as the relentless ploys of the food industry to improved life expectancy, educational achievement or crime fatten us up and the lack of affordable and safe ways to take reduction, are at least mid-term achievements. ‘Health action regular exercise. Children in particular need protection zones’, devised http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine SAGE

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SAGE
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© 2005 The Royal Society of Medicine
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0141-0768
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1758-1095
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10.1177/014107680509800201
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JOURNAL OF THE R OYAL SOCIETY O F M EDICINE V o lu me 98 Febru a ry 2005 JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF MEDICINE February 2005 Volume 98 Number 2 ISSN 0141-0768 will it take for these populations to ‘choose health’, and for the NHS to perform as well on health as it has on healthcare? We might learn from what has been tried already. A population characterized by systematic deprivation, In November 2004 the UK Government published a White absorbed in day-to-day survival and unkeen on officialdom, Paper about health in England. Behind it lies the notion is not easily engaged. A first step is to secure local political that, in general, consumers wish to make their own choices commitment to common objectives, and this itself is a time- for health but that they need help in coping with adverse consuming and complex task. The outcomes sought, such as factors—such as the relentless ploys of the food industry to improved life expectancy, educational achievement or crime fatten us up and the lack of affordable and safe ways to take reduction, are at least mid-term achievements. ‘Health action regular exercise. Children in particular need protection zones’, devised

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Published: Feb 1, 2005

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