For too long, societies around the world have tended to see money that is spent on healthcare as simply a cost to be borne, while considering spending on innovation, infrastructure, or education to be investments. But if you don’t see health as an investment, then you do not consider the importance of health when formulating policy, particularly economic policy. Ally Brown points to the short term thinking caused by electoral cycles as one reason that UK governments have fallen into this trap (doi:10.1136/bmj.p1164).1 Michael Marmot says that politicians simply “don’t read the health literature” on …

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身体健康是为了自己

长期以来，世界各地的社会都倾向于将花在医疗保健上的钱仅仅视为需要承担的成本，而将用于创新、基础设施或教育的支出视为投资。但如果你不把健康看作是一种投资，那么你在制定政策，特别是经济政策时就没有考虑到健康的重要性。Ally Brown 指出，由选举周期引起的短期思维是英国政府陷入这一陷阱的一个原因 (doi:10.1136/bmj.p1164)。1 Michael Marmot 说政治家根本“不阅读健康文献” ……