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Gesundheit ist ein entscheidender Teil unserer Lebensqualität. Dieses Buch konzentriert sich auf die zentrale Rolle, die der Gesundheit in modernen Gesellschaften zukommt. Es beschreibt das neue aktive Gesundheitsverständnis und erläutert die radikale Umorientierung und Neugestaltung, die dadurch erforderlich werden, und es spricht die Paradoxien, Ambivalenzen und Ungleichheiten an, die uns im Gesundheitsalltag begegnen. Gesundheit wird allgegenwärtig, und das derzeitige Gesundheitswesen wird zum Nebenschauplatz, wenn es um die Gesunderhaltung geht. Es braucht daher eine neue Gesundheitspolitik, die diesen Namen verdient. Dabei geht es nicht nur um neue Strategien, sondern auch um eine Diskussion über die Werte und ethischen Grundlagen der Gesundheitsgesellschaft. Bürgerinnen und Bürger, Politik und Markt müssen auf neue Weise zusammenwirken, um nachhaltige Gesundheit zu ermöglichen.

As societies grow more complex andpeople are increasingly bombarded withhealth information and misinformation health literacy becomes essential. Peoplewith strong health literacy skills enjoybetter health and well-being while thosewith weaker skills tend to engage in riskierbehaviour and have poorer health. With evidence from the recent EuropeanHealth Literacy Survey this report identifiespractical and effective ways public healthand other sector authorities and advocatescan strengthen health literacy in a varietyof settings including educational settings workplaces marketplaces health systems

Argues that a nation's well-being mirrors the health of its citizens. This book outlines the strategies that emphasize a balance between public and individual health goals, and collaborations between cost-efficient, streamlined medical care and therapeutic research and technology - values that have been traditionally been considered in conflict

The World Health Organization (WHO), Pandemics, and COVID-19: How to Proceed With a Multilateral Concept of Global Health? The WHO grew to 194 member states, and with globalization, geopolitical shifts, and internal reorganizations, the lines of influence have become more complex. In 2020, the United States severely endangered multilateralism in health. Recently, the Biden administration has revived US commitment as a major global health player. Yet, the lack of coherence in supporting collective action on global health remains a problem. Global health geopolitics are shifting and China and India have acquired enough power to shape the global health agenda. At the instigation of Germany, health has become a regular topic at Group of Twenty (G20) and G7 meetings – a critical factor during the COVID-19 pandemic. The WHO's director general frequently states that health is a political choice. Many countries made unfortunate, if not questionable political choices in their responses to COVID-19. But as a matter of fact, they took the wrong turn much earlier when they neglected investments in pandemic preparedness and in the WHO. Countries have the political choice right now to seriously strengthen the WHO, its funding, and its legal power, or to weaken or even destroy one of the most important agencies in the UN system.

The year 2016 could turn out to be a turning point for global health, new political realities and global insecurities will test governance and financing mechanisms in relation to both people and planet. But most importantly political factors such as the global power shift and "the rise of the rest" will define the future of global health. A new mix of health inequity and security challenges has emerged and the 2015 humanitarian and health crises have shown the limits of existing systems. The global health as well as the humanitarian system will have to prove their capacity to respond and reform. The challenge ahead is deeply political, especially for the rising political actors. They are confronted with the consequences of a model of development that has neglected sustainability and equity, and was built on their exploitation. Some direction has been given by the path breaking international conferences in 2015. Especially the agreement on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris agreement on climate change will shape action. Conceptually, we will need a different understanding of global health and its ultimate goals - the health of people can no longer be seen separate from the health of the planet and wealth measured by parameters of growth will no longer ensure health

Politics play a central part in determining health and development outcomes as Gorik Ooms highlights in his recent commentary. As health becomes more global and more politicized the need grows to better understand the inherently political processes at all levels of governance, such as ideological positions, ideas, value judgments, and power. I agree that global health research should strengthen its contribution to generating such knowledge by drawing more on political science, such research is gaining ground. Even more important is – as Ooms indicates – that global health scholars better understand their own role in the political process. It is time to acknowledge that expert-based technocratic approaches are no less political. We will need to reflect and analyse the role of experts in global health governance to a greater extent and in that context explore the links between politics, expertise and democracy.