Das Gesundheitswesen
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Das Gesundheitswesen · Jun 1992
[Public health and citizen involvement--guidelines and general practice in Herne].
Health problems cannot be solved only by expanding medical and other systems of service. Limitations of these services are not only set by costs, but also by the disease patterns themselves. ⋯ The public health system has the specific duty of initiating and establishing these new approaches to health promotion and coping with disease. A model for these new municipal health policies is presented with reference to medical practice in the city of Herne in the Ruhr area of Germany.