The European Journal of Public Health Advance Access originally published online on June 5, 2007
The European Journal of Public Health 2007 17(4):328; doi:10.1093/eurpub/ckm048
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Health in all policies
Pekka PuskaDirector General, National Public Health Institute (KTL), Helsinki, Finland
Correspondence: Pekka Puska, Director General, National Public Health Institute (KTL), Helsinki, Finland, e-mail: puskap@ktl.fi
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The main principle behind the slogan Health in All Policies is really very simple: Health is greatly influenced by lifestyles and environments, e.g. how people live, work, eat and drink, move, spend their leisure time etc. These are not only individual choices, but they often have strong social, cultural, economical, environmental etc. determinants.1 Accordingly, decisions influencing people's health do not concern
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