ABSTRACT
Telehealth involves the promotion and facilitation of health and well-being with individuals and communities, by use of telematic services. In analysing good practice in telehealth, an exploration of the philosophical rationales on which various practices have been based was necessary. Health For All is a worldwide movement aimed at reorienting health services towards primary health care and prevention of ill health, as opposed to the promise of cure. Reorienting health services towards primary health care (PHC) means putting more money into PHC and less into hospital high technology care. Prevention is more useful than state of the art and sometimes spurious diagnostic and monitoring activities. In planning future health services, European policy makers need to stimulate the public and the private sector to work more closely together. Health policy has become victim blaming, by implying that those who suffer illness are feckless because they do not take better care of themselves.
