title: [The benefits and risks of a new value: the "health" value in the post-industrial society].
abstract: The means to improve the health of individuals and communities has risen exponentially throughout the twentieth century, which essentially has had specific repercussions in the developed world. However, it is precisely in these countries that there exists, more persistently, a dissatisfaction with the present standard of health. This may be due to the high value placed on health in our culture, but also to the unfortunate or simply illintentioned use of a view which relates health and well-being, chanelling the expectations of the citizens towards hedonism. Moreover, this view does not only exist in societies which aspire to set up the model of the Welfare State. Furthermore, the insistence on prevention, and especially individual prevention--an insistence based principally on economic reasons--, related to the frustration of hedonistic expectations with regard to health, seems to have led, paradoxically, to rise of a valetudinarian society.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Salud Pública e Historia de la Ciencia, UCM.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Montiel
mesh_terms: D003906:Developing Countries / Q000266:history*; D006262:Health; D049673:History, 20th Century; D011634:Public Health / Q000266:history*; D011639:Public Opinion; D026712:Value of Life
vernacular_title: Beneficios y riesgos de un nuevo valor: el valor salud en la sociedad postindustrial.