Health Education: Panacea, Pernicious or Pointless?

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As a consequence of the frustrations spawned by the escalating costs and the low returns of disease-oriented medicine, health education has begun to be touted as an antidote to the nation's health ills.At the federal level, interest in health education was aroused as early as 1971 with the appointment of the prestigious President's Committee on Health Education.1 Subsequent activities at the executive and congressional levels culminated in the enactment of the National Consumer Health Information and Health Promotion Act of 1976. This law established within HEW a high-level Office of Health Information and Health Promotion. It also directed the . . .

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