Priority for health needs
Health education and health promotion should be given a higher priority than high technology, says the executive director of the Nurses’ Association, Ms Gay Williams. “The association believes we should be educating people how to live a healthy lifestyle, thus reducing the incidence of illness such as heart
disease rather than concentrating on testing the end results with high technology like heart transplant surgery,” said Ms Williams. “High technology is the wrong priority for health development in the 1980 s and 19905.” Ms Williams said that more time, energy and money should be put into health education and
health promotion. “Resources must be allocated in a way that benefits the greatest number -r often those who cannot speak for themselves like young children with respiratory problems or ear disorders; or the elderly with chronic illnesses that prevent them living a quality lifestyle.”
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Press, 7 December 1987, Page 7
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