Health for All in the New Millennium

摘要

Do health professionals have a responsibility to identify and attempt to correct the social and environmental wrongs that so undermine our collective and personal health? The organization of which I am presently chairman, Medact, has 2000 members whose unequivocal answer to this question is YES. Further, the impact of health professionals, working over the past 50 years in the two parent organizations from which Medact evolved, shows that this unequivocal response is rooted in good evidence, essential in this day of obsessive obeisance to evidence-based decision making.