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