Purpose – Since the emergence of new public health in the 1970s, health has not merely been considered the absence of disease, but physical, mental and social wellbeing. This article seeks to analyzes the implications of this broad concept of health at an organizational level....

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore how the patient comes to be seen as a solution to governance problems. Design/methodology/approach The paper studies health policy discourse in Denmark from 1970 to 2000. Based on an analysis of national policy documents, the paper traces how the...