Public health in the new American health system

• Published in: Frontiers of health services management Vol. 10; no. 4; pp. 32 - 36
• Main Authors: Roper, W L, Koplan, J P, Stinnett, A A
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Ovid Technologies 1994
• Subjects: Clinical Medicine; Comprehensive Health Care - organization & administration; Crime prevention; Delivery of Health Care - economics; Delivery of Health Care - organization & administration; Disease prevention; Health administration; Health care policy; Health Care Reform - economics; Health Care Reform - organization & administration; Health insurance; Health promotion; Health services; Infectious diseases; Medical personnel; Objectives; Prevention programs; Preventive Medicine; Private Sector; Professionals; Public health; Public Health Administration - economics; Public Health Administration - trends; Public Sector; Quality of life; Reforms; Sewage disposal; United States; United States; United States > US
• ISSN: 0748-8157; 2475-2797
• DOI: 10.1097/01974520-199404000-00005

The more independent that public health and medical care become, the less effective each subsystem is in performing its fundamental functions. The function of public health has evolved from adding years to life to adding life to one's years. If health reform does result in increased financing for clinical preventive services, then public health will be enabled to focus more intensively on the core functions in which its comparative advantage lies: monitoring and assessing health status in the community, assessing community health services needs, promoting healthy behaviors, and developing policy and assurance systems for health improvement.