Steven Woolf: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Academic
- Role
- Professor of family medicine and population health and director of the Virginia Commonwealth University Center on Society and Health
- Quoted on
- Elderly care & frailty
- Tracked press citations
- 1
- Most recently quoted
- 27 Aug 2026
“The paper ignores and oversimplifies the actual, multilayered root causes of the conditions that foster poor health in a population. There are factors affecting health that are beyond personal choice. So while it's good to give people clear guidance on how their choices affect their health, it's taking policymakers and others off the hook.”
Where Steven Woolf has been quoted
- At least 80% responsibility for ill health in old age down to individual, study saystheguardian.com · 27 Aug 2026
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