... disease treatment to prevention has been a key focus of public health policy to this day. Every generation of public health reports presents prevention as the answer to past failures, but the continuous experience of failure is strangely coexistent with a fundamental belief in the ability of lifestyle...

...Deborah A. Stone The politics of preventive health care have changed dramatically in the last fifteen years. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, prevention was the motherhood issue of health care reform. With only the slightest glimmer of controversy, vaccination, promotion of lifestyle changes...

... their health status through “lifestyle” adjustments, as well as a diverse amalgamation of practitioners (both medical and otherwise), who offer a wide range of therapies outside the mainstream of modern medical practice. Holistic health care has lately become the rubric under which these therapies are grouped...

... enthusiastic. We first summarize the Report , noting its heavy emphasis on lifestyle. We then compare its tenets with those of the nineteenth century public health revolution. The Report recognizes social and economic conditions as significant factors in determining health but fails to incorporate...

...Sylvia Tesh This article distinguishes three current theories that purport to account for the etiology of chronic diseases: a germ theory, a lifestyle theory and an environmental theory. Since each of these proposals about disease causality implies a different locus of responsibility for disease...

...Howard Leichter By the beginning of 1986 all but three states had taken some action on a mandatory seat-belt bill. The seat-belt debate is one manifestation of the concern over the relationship between lifestyle and disease, and has raised some of the most fundamental questions of politics...

... chronic disease related to people's unhealthy lifestyles and physical environments. It identifies common features that make it difficult to establish and maintain initiatives to prevent or reduce costly illness and physical suffering: (1) public health benefits are generally dispersed and delayed; (2...

... to be the result of lifestyle, environment, or underlying biological patterns, has attracted a great deal of attention, both in Canada and elsewhere. This article examines the responses of various interested groups to the Lalonde Report, with particular attention to the assumptions and biases that each group...

...Muriel R. Gillick Individual lifestyle was held accountable for health and disease throughout much of American history. Since the advent of the germ theory of disease, the focus on the etiology of disease has shifted to factors beyond individual control. But in the past two decades, there has been...

...-­1538584  © 2012 by Duke University Press 178 Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law health. He details the genealogy of lifestyle prevention — a phrase that denotes efforts to change lifestyle behaviors to prevent chronic disease —  as a policy idea and shows, through U.S. and Danish public...

... . Berkeley:University of California Press. Nettleton, Sarah, and Robin Bunton. 1995 . Sociological Critiques of Health Promotion. In The Sociology of Health Promotion: Critical Analyses of Consumption, Lifestyle, and Risk ,ed. Robin Bunton, Sarah Nettleton, and Roger Burrows, 41 -59. London: Routledge. New...

... and O’Connell 2003).4 For about two decades, the public health establishment has emphasized lifestyle factors as important determinants of health. Many policy makers believe that the best way to address disparities in health status is to educate people about lifestyle risk factors and other preventive...

..., No. 2, April 2012 DOI 10.1215/03616878-­1538602  © 2012 by Duke University Press 202 Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law says that if you pay people to do something, they will be more likely to do it), in the form of paying people to change their lifestyle behaviors, is a topical...

... increasingly effective. He is very skeptical of the thesis that changes in lifestyle will-or can-produce improvements in health of the same order of magnitude that medicine, undergirded by science, will shortly bring. Acceptance, rejection, or modification of the underlying premises of each...

... the argument went, was that the major causes of morbidity and pre- mature mortality are the result of imprudent lifestyles and are therefore amenable to prevention through government intervention. This particular perspective on health, which has gained legions of adherents among policymakers, is one...

...-first agenda persists in China today. Perhaps most important, ILSI-promoted concepts now form cornerstones of major policies on diet, healthy lifestyle, and chronic disease prevention. The State Council's National Nutrition Plan (2017–30), for example, takes the slogan “balancing eating and moving...

... by a wide range of psychosocial and envi- ronmental factors, including the oft-discussed lifestyle variables of smoking, overeating, and excessive use of alcohol, but extends well beyond them to properties of the broader socioeconomic system. These, in turn, shape lifestyles, environmental exposures...

...Anna Kirkland References ADP Research Institute . 2012 . “ Employers See Wellness Programs as Key to Containing Rising Healthcare Costs .” ADP Advisor 22 , no. 2 : 1 – 7 . Ardell Donald B. 1982 . Fourteen Days to a Wellness Lifestyle . Mill Valley, CA : Whatever...

... . Klein Richard . 1993 . Cigarettes Are Sublime . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Leichter Howard M. 1997 . “ Lifestyle Correctness and the New Secular Morality .” In Morality and Health , edited by Brandt Allan M. and Rozin Paul , 359 – 78 . New York : Routledge...

.... Bickenbach, J. E. 1998 . Disability and Life-Ending Decisions. In Physician-Assisted Suicide: Expanding the Debate , ed. M. P. Battin, R. Rhodes, and A. Silvers. New York:Routledge. Corbet B. 1999a . Editorial: Community Assist. New Mobility: Disability Culture and Lifestyle ,August, 4. ———. 1999b...