Restoring our health

Maintaining, restoring, and improving the health of our nation.

We need to start a conversation about Health. A conversation with our patients, our peers in the health care professions, and our communities across this nation. In the view of US Army Surgeon General LTG Patricia D. Horoho, our American health care system today, including military medicine, is focused on disease rather than Health. That's understandable--but it has to change.

Restoring health to health reform.

Sydney Cooperation and Tolerance : Restoring our economic system

This paper argues that present institutional settings in rural Australia are inadequate for the task of bringing about a culture which is fair and inclusive. The solution is seen to lie in policies for rural Australia that support an infusion of new values into our institutions – values associated with the development of bridging ties and relationships through cooperation, goodwill, common-weal...

Restoring humanity to health care.

In this first installment of a new quarterly column on lessons learned from the cutting edge of care innovation, we discuss the imperative for and insights on how to move health care away from its current transactional focus and towards a more human-centric model.

RIVM rapport 270555009 Our food, our health

P.O. Box 1 3720 BA Bilthoven The Netherlands www.rivm.nl/en Our food, our health Healthy and unhealthy diets receive a lot of attention nowadays, and there are good reasons for this. Each year, overweight and unfavourable dietary composition account for thousands of new cases of illness and unnecessary deaths. The number of young people and adults who are overweight is increasing. Foodborne inf...