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We can now avoid disease and live healthier lives by addressing self-inflicted harm. Understanding our choices is key to public health progress and combating lifestyle diseases.

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  • Ethics

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  • Lifestyle diseases, often self-inflicted, cause 90% of European deaths.
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  • To argue that solving the problem of self-inflicted harm is essential for public and human progress.

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    • Recognizing our capacity for making difficult, virtuous choices is fundamental to our humanity.
    • International frameworks like the Universal Declaration of Human Rights support active participation in social change for better health outcomes.