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J Epidemiol Community Health 2003;57:755 doi:10.1136/jech.57.9.755

A master of public health must be the minimum prerequisite for a health minister: a timely proposal to discuss the necessary qualifications of the ideal health minister

  1. I D Dimoliatis
  1. University of Ioannina, Medical School, Ioannina, 45110 Greece; idimolia@cc.uoi.gr

      Ten editorials described the ideal minister of health (MoH).1–10 The next step is to find out how to choose him/her.

      “Ethics is important. Trade is more important”, said a MoH during a European Union meeting on tobacco advertisement. One could not find a better example of the completely opposite of the ideal MoH. Why do we permit people that think as if they were trade ministers to become MoH? What is the safety valve that keeps such a (trade) Trojan horse outside …

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