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Health should be viewed as a shared responsibility between individuals and society.Individuals bear primary responsibility for daily choices—diet, exercise, smoking, sleep, and seeking timely medical care. Personal agency drives most preventable diseases.However, society holds crucial responsibility through systemic factors: equitable access to healthcare, clean air/water/food, education, workplace safety, poverty reduction, and regulation of harmful industries (tobacco, ultra-processed food, alcohol).Blaming only individuals ignores powerful structural influences; holding only society accountable dismisses personal agency.The most effective model is partnership: empower individuals with knowledge, resources and supportive environments, while society removes barriers and addresses commercial determinants of ill-health.https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/social-determinants-of-health
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3863696/
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