ABSTRACT
The general link between quality and quantity of food intake on the one hand, and general levels of health on the other, was accepted by the World Health Organization when it concluded that for the time being an adequate diet is the most effective 'vaccine' against most of the diarrhoeal, respiratory and other common infections. Health surveys in the more affluent sections of the world have noted that as much as 90 per cent of their apparently healthy subjects had some physical aberration or clinical disorder well worthy of treatment. Cochrane's themes continued to be pursued and supported, and later evidence continued to show that there remained considerable scope for focusing National Health Service activities more explicitly on an evidence-based medicine relying upon sound medical research, and the communication of these research results to all NHS doctors. Health services policies for better health must involve substantially more than policies related to health care delivery, as indicated in the Beveridge Report.
