7. Health politics
- Health politics refers to distributing power, attention and money to:
- Improve health and wellbeing of populations
- Reduce health inequality
- Strengthen public health
- Ensure universal, sustainable and high quality health systems
- Philosophical level – advocating for the right to health
- Economical level – financing of health care, public health measures
- Education level – implement health programmes in school, etc.
- Also talk about primordial and primary prevention here, see topic 5