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The European Journal of Public Health Advance Access originally published online on February 12, 2009
The European Journal of Public Health 2009 19(2):139; doi:10.1093/eurpub/ckp013
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© The Author 2009. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Public Health Association. All rights reserved.

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Should health be seen as the central goal and means?

Signild Vallgårda

Unit of Health Services Research, Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Øster Farimagsgade 5, 1014 Copenhagen, Denmark

Correspondence: Signild Vallgårda, Unit of Health Services Research, Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Øster Farimagsgade 5, 1014 Copenhagen, Denmark, tel: +4535327968, fax: +4535327629, e-mail: s.vallgarda@pubhealth.ku.dk

Received November 14, 2008, accepted January 20, 2009

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WHO's Commission on the Social Determinants of Health makes the case that ‘(t)he development of a society, rich or poor, can be judged by the quality of its population's health, how fairly health is distributed across the social spectrum, and the degree of protection provided from disadvantaged due to ill-health’. The argument is that the health . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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