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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 only health services or ‘health policies’, but decisions in many different policy areas have their influence on these health determinants. The idea that health is not only medicine is not new. Rudolf Wirchow already in the 1800s pointed out how diseases have a societal background. More recently, the process within WHO starting from Alma Ata (1978) and Ottawa (1986) conferences have … Correspondence: Pekka Puska, Director General, National Public Health Institute (KTL), Helsinki, Finland, e-mail: puskapatktl. fi
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