title: [Medical politics. Graffiti].
abstract: If doctors want to play a role in future health promotion, they have to leave their citadel, and come closer to life and society. Modern preventive medicine cannot be dissociated from basic political, cultural and religious values and processes. Genetic counseling and engineering, influencing lifestyle, community intervention and changing the health culture among patients and doctors all require ethical and political competence rather than traditional medical skills. The author advocates the development of a new discipline, medical politics, with two major commitments: -To define basic health rights -To study the public health consequences of political systems and decisions. In a polemic and provocative style the article enlightens the potentials and dangers associated with an expanded concept of preventive medicine.
authors.affiliation: Institutt for samfunnsmedisinske fag, Universitetet i Bergen.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Fugelli
mesh_terms: D004782:Environmental Health; D015438:Health Behavior; D006291:Health Policy; D006293:Health Promotion; D008019:Life Style; D009664:Norway; D010819:Physician's Role; D011315:Preventive Medicine; D012307:Risk Factors; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors
vernacular_title: Medisinsk politikk. Grafitti.