Kontext. It takes more than just health policy to improve the health of the population. This is because many of the factors that influence health lie outside the healthcare system. A comprehensive approach driven by partnership between the...
Health starts in people’s everyday lives. The figures for life expectancy in Swiss towns and villages paint a clear picture. Residents of prosperous, primarily urban areas and conglomerations such as Zurich, Bern, Basel and Geneva, and along the country’s lakes, have a good...
Umfassende Gesundheitspolitik. In an age when healthcare costs are rising and the number of people with chronic diseases is growing, Switzerland is trying to reverse the trend by adopting a Health in All Policies (HiAP) approach. Ilona Kickbusch is one of the...
Resistent. There is a real risk of antibiotics losing their effectiveness. Unless an interdisciplinary approach is adopted, it will be impossible to combat one of the most pressing problems currently facing medicine – antibiotic resistance....