Editorial “Health for all”: an attainable goal or an idealistic dream?

Abstract

Purpose

Reflects on the prevailing health inequities across the globe and attempts to address some of these global health determinants and related global injustices.

Design/methodology/approach

Specifically focuses on potential directives for achieving the lofty goal of “health for all” through improved health promotion efforts.

Findings

The concept of “health for all”, envisages the attainment of a level of health that permits all the people of the world to lead a socially and economically productive life and this goal has been guiding health strategies all over the world for the past two decades. However, in the present day heterogeneous world, where wide disparities in health and social conditions exist between and within countries and regions, achievements in health are disturbingly dissimilar.

Originality/value

Presents a health promotion perspective that could advance the ideal of “health for all”.

Citation

Marks, R. (2005), "Editorial “Health for all”: an attainable goal or an idealistic dream?", Health Education, Vol. 105 No. 1, pp. 5-13. https://doi.org/10.1108/09654280510572268