Our people, our health, our future: Murdi Paaki Regional Council Health Summit

Our Future Mental Health

4S from the next issue Spring February) 1966?this journal will appear as a quarterly in a new, larger, completely re-designed format, hope that it will please our present ^bscribers and attract others who We not been subscribers before. MenHealth needs more readers?and are sure that more readers need Cental Health. We intend to draw the "tew Mental Health to the attention of eVer greater number...

Our adolescents--our future.

RIVM rapport 270555009 Our food, our health

P.O. Box 1 3720 BA Bilthoven The Netherlands www.rivm.nl/en Our food, our health Healthy and unhealthy diets receive a lot of attention nowadays, and there are good reasons for this. Each year, overweight and unfavourable dietary composition account for thousands of new cases of illness and unnecessary deaths. The number of young people and adults who are overweight is increasing. Foodborne inf...

The 2022 GP: our profession, our patients, our future.

For the last decade or two general practice, indeed medicine in general, has been manufacturing ‘tools’ as if a 21st century industrial revolution was under way. Am I alone in my distaste and negative reactions, feeling that in most cases the word ‘tool’ is now used in a most ignorant and inappropriate way? Most patients know exactly what tools are, and use them to good effect in the real world...

Is our health workforce prepared for future health megatrends?

Megatrends have the ability to fundamentally impact how societies are shaped, operate and interact. Megatrends can best be described as an ‘important shift in the progress of society’. Classic examples of these societal impacts can be seen in the invention of the telephone or the ready availability of affordable commercial air travel. More importantly, as health is an outcome of how societies a...