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The European Journal of Public Health 2000 10(Supplement 4):17-19; doi:10.1093/eurpub/10.suppl_4.17
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Targets for health: the learning curve – The Danish case

Allan Krasnik*

*Correspondence: Professor Allan Krasnik, MD, MPH, PhD, Department of Health Services Research, Panum Institute, University of Copenhagen, Blegdamsvej 3, DK–2200 Copenhagen N, Denmark, tel. +45 3532 7971, fax +45 3532 7629, e-mail: Krasnik{at}pubhealth.ku.dk

For many years there was a common perception in Denmark that their health services were the best in the world and that the population enjoyed good health. In spite of the WHO Health for All programme and a general governmental preventive programme during the 1980s there was very little real emphasis on national preventive initiatives. In 1993 it was realised that life expectancy in the country was no longer among the highest in Europe. This has motivated a new national target-based public health programme with 17 targets and a time scope of 10 years focusing on factors which seem to contribute mostly to excess mortality. It is still uncertain whether the programme will be transformed into action.

Keywords: health policy analyses, health targets, prevention, public health


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