The role of policy in health promotion -- Fiji.
Our health is impacted by many sectors. The improvement of population health and productivity requires a broad understanding of human ecology and the social determinants of our health. Influencing change across many sectors requires a level of expertise that is currently missing from Pacific health systems -- policy advocacy. National health promotion councils or coordinating bodies need to work across and within many sectors -- not only the health sector -- to bring about wide-ranging changes to our civil and social arrangements.
Roberts
Graham
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Department of Public Health, Fiji School of Medicine, Suva, Fiji. g.roberts@fsm.ac.fj
Kuridrani
Litiana
L
D003254:Consumer Advocacy; D005367:Fiji; D006291:Health Policy; D006293:Health Promotion; D006801:Humans; D010139:Pacific Islands; D011634:Public Health