David Taylor, professor of pharmaceutical and public health policy
at the University of London, advocates an expanded role for the
private and voluntary sectors.
He writes: "Individuals, charities, companies and the state should
work together to identify common goals, and use their combined
resources to achieve them."

The professor suggests that the state should relinquish providing
some healthcare services in the home as it would be "better" for
people if they obtained them from commercial providers.

He writes: "Walking to the shops' for food and medicines (and
perhaps some social contact) may in many ways be better for health
than using home delivery services."

Most of the reports, shared the view that the government's most
effective means of improving public health was through regulation -
such as the forthcoming ban on public smoking.

But local initiatives - either by community groups or retailers -
were more likely to encourage people to change their behaviour as
they were not regarded as nanny state schemes.

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