World Syntegrity Project
Collated Statements of Importance

Topic: Health

HEALTH - CAIRO, EGYPT

HEALTHY SURVIVAL - Brown - MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA

Health is an experience, more than an idea, belief or principle - an interaction between self and the environment, an interaction which constitutes the following key elements: Nature, Time and Space, Knowledge, Resources, Technologies.

Social Structures: Language, ethics, laws, institutions.

The everyday life-world of the self and relations between selves - emotioning and attitudes: trusting, sharing, respecting, nurturing, loving. Attainment of sustainable health requires revisioning and rebalancing the interactions between these elements.

HEALTH CARE - NEW HARTFORD, NEW YORK

Universal access to affordable or free health care, including mental health care with an emphasis on preventive programs; i.e., nutrition, birth control, and the right to choose abortion. Educational programs to begin at the earliest educational levels to provide information on all aspects of health including sex education. Fiscal support in the form of increased taxation on alcohol and tobacco, reallocation of funds from duplication of administrative costs to a single-layer system. Health care providers, including physicians, to be trained at government cost and salaried as are other workers. Research and development of pharmaceuticals through the National Institute of Health, private companies benefiting from such research and development provide those medications on a nonprofit basis. Marijuana legalized for health purposes. Drug treatment centers available to all without waiting lists. All prisons to provide drug education and treatment for prisoners who have a drug addiction problems. The profit motive must be removed from health care.

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