Health is everybody’s business. We have a population that is living longer and is likely to carry a burden of chronic disease. An increasing number of products, treatments and information are available to an informed health consumer and ‘health’ is discussed by those as diverse as Kylie Minogue in relation to breast cancer, Jamie Oliver in relation to healthy food for children and Bill Gates in relation to human immunodefi ciency virus/acquired immune defi ciency syndrome (HIV/ AIDS) treatments. Globalisation means the worldwide spread and movement not only of products but also people (including health sector workers) and diseases. Better population health depends on making health everybody’s business but nurses.
