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Health in the 1980's

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2010

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Some months ago the Henry Dunant Institute, in co-operation with Messrs Sandoz S.A., undertook an enquiry into Health and Medicine in the 1980's in the developed countries. Following the Delphi method, it has so far given some interesting results.

From the replies of sixty-three experts in eighteen countries to two successive questionnaires, it is apparent, in the first place, that the concept of health will extend over the next two decades to cover social and mental conditions which are not at present considered health problems.

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In the Red Cross World
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Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1972

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1 This method consists in obtaining expert opinions in successive questionnaires, from which a synopsis is made.