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Thomas Zeltner (born 1947 in Berne, Switzerland) is a Swiss physician, lawyer, and former Secretary of Health of Switzerland (Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHA ). He has a long history as an innovative leader in public health and has repeatedly been ranked among the 12 most influential political figures of Switzerland.〔http://www.bilanz.ch/luxus/geballte-macht Die Mächtigsten: Geballte Macht〕 Dr. Zeltner is Professor at the University of Berne, Switzerland, in Public Health; Visiting Scientist at the Harvard School of Public Health; and Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Programme on Global Health at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva. He is an honorary member of the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences and serves on the board of the Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences and the (InterAcademy Medical Panel (iamp) ). He is a co-founder of the (Global Patient Safety Forum ), along with Dr. Charles Denham. ==Past== Zeltner was graduated with an M.D. and an LL.M. (master's in law) from the University of Berne. He specialized in human pathology and forensic medicine before becoming the head of Medical Services at the Bern University Hospital. He held various faculty positions at the University of Bern and at the Harvard School of Public Health. In 1991, the Swiss Government appointed Zeltner as the 8th Director-General of the Swiss National Health Authority and Secretary of Health of Switzerland, a position he held until the end of 2009. Under Zeltner's leadership, Switzerland developed in 1991 a pioneering illicit drug policy, which has received global attention. It is based on a 4-pillar strategy (prevention, harm reduction, therapy, and law enforcement), which is enshrined in the Swiss law on narcotic drugs. The harm reduction policy of Switzerland – which includes large-scale syringe exchange programs (also in prisons) and the medical prescription of heroin for chronic heroin addicts – was introduced against the strong opposition of the UN drug control authorities, but endorsed by a majority of the Swiss population in several popular referenda. In 1999-2000, at the request of the then-Director General of WHO, Gro Harlem Brundtland, Zeltner chaired a committee which investigated the efforts of multinational tobacco companies to undermine tobacco control activities of the World Health Organization (2000). This landmark report marks the beginning of the development of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (2003).〔Reynolds LA, Tansey EM, eds. (2010) () The transcript of a Witness Seminar organized by the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, in collaboration with the Department of Knowledge Management and Sharing, WHO, held in Geneva, on 26 February 2010. WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. Retrieved 31 Jul 2013.〕 With his efforts to reduce tobacco consumption in Switzerland, Zeltner became a favorite adversary of big tobacco and was nicknamed “the Tobacco Taliban." As Director General of the Swiss Federal Office of Public Health, he presided over changes to transform the regulated market model of the Swiss health care sector into a more value- and consumer-driven health care system. The Swiss model guarantees access to affordable insurance to all, even if they have pre-existing medical problems. All residents are required to buy insurance even if they’re currently healthy, so that the risk pool remains reasonably favorable. Finally subsidies are given to low income families to pay for their premiums. Even though the Swiss pay 11.0% of the GDP for health (data 2011), a majority of 78% considers that the system works well or very well. The Swiss health care model is gaining increased international interest, particularly in the U.S. Zeltner was a member and Vice-President of the Executive Board of the World Health Organization (WHO) (1999-2002). He chaired the committee to reform the governance rules of the WHO in 2002-4. He was also Executive President of the WHO Regional Committee for Europe (1994–95) and Chairman of the Governing Council of IARC (International Agency for Research on Cancer, 1998-2000). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Thomas Zeltner」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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