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Social practices--such as alcohol and drug abuse, smoking, reckless driving and lack of seatbelt use--are the "things that account for the major problems of health in this country," Mann said...
...Mann says the profound relationship between health and human rights is "revolutionary;" the beginning of a new approach to public health...
...current approach to public health tends to limit itself to medical type applications--health education, clinics, distributing condoms, immunizations," Mann said. "But if we really want to get to the root problem, we have go beyond that to the central question of rights and dignity...
...Mann said that the "sense that you're not alone" in thinking there's an important relationship between health and human rights is probably the most important outcome for the participants...
...next conference is tentatively slated for 1996, Mann said...