Healthy public policies: looking ahead

Healthy public policies: looking ahead.

Health has moved up on the political agendas of most governments around the globe. The interdependence of economic, environmental and social conditions and health is increasingly understood. In turn, the experiences in health promotion with building healthy public policies become more important. Future "health in all policies" efforts, however, need to consider changing political contexts. Ther...

Looking Ahead in Public Assistance

* Member, Social Security Board. I N RECENT MONTHS t h e r e h a s been m u c h discussion of t h e need for improv ing social i n su rance , b o t h u n e m p l o y m e n t i n s u r a n c e a n d i n s u r a n c e a g a i n s t o the r r isks , b u t provisions for publ ic ass i s tance h a v e received rela t ively l i t t le a t t e n t i o n . Whi le comprehens ive a n d l iberal i n su ra...

Looking ahead.

Looking ahead.

Looking Ahead?

Human and nonhuman primates are not mentally constrained to the present. They can remember the past and—at least to an extent—anticipate the future. Anticipation of the future ranges from long-term prospection such as planning for retirement to more short-term future-oriented cognition such as planning a route through a maze. Here we tested a great ape species (chimpanzees), an Old World monkey...