Health : State About Which Medicine
Has Nothing to Say
Michel ODIKA
Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say (W.
H.
AUDEN)
Equity, whether in health, wealth or power is rarely, if ever, fully achieved.
Some communities and societies are...
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Health : State About Which Medicine
Has Nothing to Say
Michel ODIKA
Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say (W.
H.
AUDEN)
Equity, whether in health, wealth or power is rarely, if ever, fully achieved.
Some communities and societies are more egalitarian than others certainly, but
on the whole the world is “unequal”.
Yet the desire for better protection of
health, for less health inequity and for more participation in decision-making
process that affect health increasingly becomes more intense than it was a few
decades ago.
Now more than ever, people do not think about health only in
terms of sickness or injury, but also in terms of what they perceive as
endangering their health and that of their community.
Therefore, much more is
expected, so that an increasing number of people expect health and something
else…
The extent of health inequities is now largely documented, not only between
countries but equally within countries.
They predominantly stem from social
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