Public health in the new American health system
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 f...
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Published in | Frontiers of health services management Vol. 10; no. 4; pp. 32 - 36 |
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Main Authors | , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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United States
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Ovid Technologies
1994
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Summary: | 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. |
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Bibliography: | ObjectType-Article-2 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-3 content type line 23 ObjectType-Commentary-1 |
ISSN: | 0748-8157 2475-2797 |
DOI: | 10.1097/01974520-199404000-00005 |