Q: How can public policy promote healthier lifestyles?

Response from in-person forum:
First there needs to be a paradigm shift from dealing with illness to creating and enhancing wellness on a pre-conception to grave basis. The government can help by focusing their programs with this as an outcome.

As stated above public policy can create healthier lifestyles by the following:
  • We strongly want to increase the types of preventive and wellness programs that alternative practitioners specialize in. Because of this alternative practitioners need to be incorporated in the health care reform policies.
  • Preventive care should also be focused in schools starting with young children, and providing healthier meals at schools.
  • Dental check-ups and cleanings should also be covered by the healthcare reform policies.