Health Social Policy in Facing New Paradigm of Industrial Revolution 4.0

Abstract

Health is not a health ansich, since it is contextual, as society defines health differently, at least by four aspects : cultural pattern, cultural standard of health changes over time, technology affecting people’s health, social inequality affecting people’s health. Poor and wealthy countries have their own specific health’s issues. In poor countries, health problem are mostly famine, malaria, cholera/diaries, skin disease and infection. Health problems are mostly caused by bad environment, dirty water and bad sanitation. Health problems in rich countries, especially in the US, are mostly heart attack stroke, and obesity. There are two approaches of health social policy : the prevention and the cure. The prevention is sometimes called as the social well-being policy with objective to increase people’s health condition. Other understanding of prevention is social work, which has broader meaning that social life does not only refer to health. While the cure is commonly understood as “social health care system”, as noted by Johnson and Schwartz defined as system generally responsible for sickness and disability. Why government shall develop health policy, create mechanism for health care, and manage health prevention ?”. The first answer is that healthy society is an assurance for national productivity, and therefore competitiveness. The second answer is that healthy society generates additional disposable income. There is no single best way to develop health policy. There are many rooms and spaces to develop creative health policy.