Putting health in all policies: The National Institute for Welfare Enhancement

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• dc.contributor.author Ortún Rubio, Vicenteca
• dc.contributor.author González López-Valcárcel, Beatrizca
• dc.contributor.other Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Departament d'Economia i Empresa
• dc.date.accessioned 2017-07-26T10:50:44Z
• dc.date.available 2017-07-26T10:50:44Z
• dc.date.issued 2010-05-01
• dc.date.modified 2017-07-23T02:13:18Z
• dc.description.abstract Welfare is a rather vague term whose meaning depends on ideology, values and judgments. Material resources are just means to enhance people s well-being, but growth of the Gross Domestic Production is still the standard measure of the success of a society. Fortunately, recent advances in measuring social performance include health, education and other social outcomes. Because what we measure affects what we do it is hoped that social policies will change. The movement Health in all policies and its associated Health Impact Assessment methodology will contribute to it. The task consists of designing transversal policies that consider health and other welfare goals, the short term and long-term implications and intergenerational redistributions of resources. As long as marginal productivity on health outside the healthcare system is higher than inside it, efficiency needs cross-sectoral policies. And fairness needs them even more, because in order to reduce social inequalities in health, a wide social and political response is needed. Unless we reduce the well-documented inefficiencies in our current health care systems the welfare states will fail to consolidate and the overall economic wellbeing could be in serious trouble. In this article we sketched some policy solutions such as pricing according to net benefits of innovation and public encouragement of radical innovation besides the small type incremental and market-led innovation. We proposed an independent agency, the National Institute for Welfare Enhancement to guarantee long term fair and efficient social policies in which health plays a central role.
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• dc.identifier https://econ-papers.upf.edu/ca/paper.php?id=1219
• dc.identifier.citation Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 2010; 64: 497-499.
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/6346
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.relation.ispartofseries Economics and Business Working Papers Series; 1219
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• dc.subject.keyword public health policies; health impact assessment; welfare; health in all policies.
• dc.subject.keyword Management and Organization Studies
• dc.subject.keyword Labour, Public, Development and Health Economics
• dc.title Putting health in all policies: The National Institute for Welfare Enhancementca
• dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaper