Albeit important, prevention measures could also be expanded to include housing, food programmes, help with indebtedness, education and environmental policy. Making better choices now means that we must implement those interventions that will improve our health. This will not only benefit our public health as a whole, but also specifically support people with a lower socioeconomic status.
Broad prevention programmes tend to be harder to get off the ground, for example because the positive effects of such programmes often benefit other actors than the ones investing in it. Another reason is that the effects of preventive programmes only become clear in the longer term. And a third challenge is the static and often diffuse nature of these positive effects.