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In practical terms, the NHS for example sinks a lot of money into anti-smoking campaigns and into advertising campaigns about weight reduction .On the governmen
by Angostura 7y ago
In practical terms, the NHS for example sinks a lot of money into anti-smoking campaigns and into advertising campaigns about weight reduction .On the government side this tends to translate into things like taxation on sugar in drinks.
I've just been called in for a check up on my blood pressure and if it had worstened, I would on the end of quite a lot of dietary and excerise advice in an attemp to avoid additional medication. Many GPs in the UK has teamed up with Parkrun and now prescribe park run participation for certain patients and conditions.
- thedaemon 7y agoThis sounds like a nightmare on privacy. Government collaborating and sharing your data with outside Companies. Am I getting this right, or wrong?
- alexgmcm 7y agoThey don't share your data, they just encourage you to go for a run.
- SolaceQuantum 7y ago"This sounds like a nightmare on privacy. Government collaborating and sharing your data with outside Companies" Unlike Private companies sharing our data with other private companies?
- ben_w 7y agoOccasionally public-private data sharing gets in the news. Where I see it reported, it’s treated as a scandal even when the company in question is Alphabet and they got the data for AI research: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/jun/10/nhs-data-google-alphabet-tech-drug-firms https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/jun/10/nhs-data-goo... Medical privacy is one of those places where I wonder if a personal desire for privacy might hurt society as a whole — Almost, but not quite, like the tragedy of the commons. Still, it’s easy for me to say that, none of my embarrassing aspects have medical consequences.
- Angostura 7y agoI think you're getting it wrong. The publicity campaigns are just that - publicity campaigns. In terms of Parkrun, there's no data sharing. GP Practices simply encourage patients to go running and have all the details of their local parkrun to hand https://www.runnersworld.com/uk/a776238/parkrun-uk-teams-up-with-gps-to-prescribe-running-and-active-lifestyles-to-patients/ https://www.runnersworld.com/uk/a776238/parkrun-uk-teams-up-...
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