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Progressing From Disease Prevention to Health Promotion
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To the Editor: Kudos to Dr Breslow1 for articulating the compelling rationale for moving medicine and public health beyond the prevention and treatment of illness to the promotion of well-being. When my daughter Caroline wrote this story at age 6, she reminded me that children can teach adults about well-being:
The dancing rainbow purple bodied monster goes dancing all night. Her skirt twirls while she dances. She turns the music on full blast. She dances all around the forest. The animals dance with her. They dance and dance all night. In the morning they take a nap. She has a good life.
Surely, we adult clinicians and public health practitioners can accept Breslow's challenge and help those we serve achieve what Campbell2 called "the rapture of being alive."
As Breslow suggests, an initial step is the development of both definitions and measurements of capacities for maintaining optimal function. To the . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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