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   %HONEST HEALTHY PEOPLE RELATIONSHIPS COMMUNITIES 890610

     Personal health and communal health are  interrelated
in  intimate  ways  which  depend  upon  the  honesty  and
integrity  of the personal relationships in the  community
as  well as upon the physical health of individual members
of each community.

     Central  to the health of community is the  integrity
of  the communal procedures for promoting good health  and
for dealing with the breakdown of health.  It is essential
that  members of the community be responsible for as  much
of  their own health care as can be arranged;   else  they
become overly dependent specialized upon professionals who
then  lack  motivation  to promote good  health  in  their
patients  who  pay most when they are sick most.   Such  a
relationship  of  dependency upon health providers  is  an
unhealthy relationship and it undermines the health of the
community.    When  the income of  health  care  providers
depends upon people being sick and in need of health care,
the system is bound to become corrupted and expensive.

     The health of a community depends critically upon the
health  of  the  relationships among the  members  of  the
community.    Dishonest  relationships  undermine  health.
Relationships  characterized by compulsive dependence  and
assistance   undermine  health.    Coercive  relationships
undermine  health,   even if they are  mutually  coercive.
Personal  relationships focused upon personal control  are
unhealthy,   even if they are idealistic  in  orientation.
Pretentious  relationships which do not deal realistically
with  personal limitations are unhealthy.  Extravagant and
exclusive  relationships which squander limited human  and
natural  resources  are unjust and so unhealthy.    Bodily
health  usually  mirrors  the  quality  of   interpersonal
relationships among the members of a community.

     It is helpful to give consideration to  institutional
relationships   as   well   as  to   individual   personal
relationships.   A  community can be unhealthy because  of
systemic  institutional  relationships  which can  not  be
controlled   through  individual  efforts;   but  can   be
influenced  by  cooperative  communal  efforts.    It   is
unhealthy  for  members of a community to ignore the  role
which systemic institutional relationships play in setting
the  stage for personal health or disease.    Banks  which
red-line residential neighborhoods undermine health.

     Corrupt   political  leadership  undermines  communal
health.   Segregated schooling undermines communal health.
Systematically  biased news reporting undermines  communal
health.    Religious excommunications  undermine  communal
health.    Violations  of communication  rights  undermine
communal health even when they are done in the name of law
and  order.    Military  training  to  despise  the  enemy
undermines   communal   health.    Preparations  for   war
undermine communal health.

                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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