Indivíduo x Sociedade

Earth Citizens' Health and Wellbeing

My goal in this blog is to promote a Triangular Approach to the Health and Wellbeing of Earth Citizens. This Triangular Approach consists of : 1) Quaternary Prevention (Preventing Unnecessary Interventions in Clinical Medicine and Public Health ), 2) Preconception Prevention of Diseases by Preconception Planning, 3) Social Prevention of Diseases and Social Treatment of the Patients

Thursday, November 27, 2014

A new paper, by Dr Stanley Blue, lecturer in Social Sciences at The University of Manchester, claims that there needs to be a shift in public health policy, with less focus on efforts to change individual behaviour and more attention on breaking social habits and practices that are blindly leading us into bad health.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/11/141126124353.htm

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09581596.2014.980396#.VHcG0mfmDGg