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Health Affairs, 25, no. 4 (2006): 1044-1052 doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.25.4.1044 © 2006 by Project HOPE	New Online   Getting Health Reform Done   After the State of the Union   Incremental Reform   E-Health in Developing World   Most-Read Articles in 2009

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Can Public Health And Medicine Partner In The Public Interest?

J. Michael McGinnis

The dominant issues for health and health care today can be effectively engaged only if public health and medicine work together as better partners. Yet historical, professional, organizational, operational, and financial barriers exist to closer relationships. Fostering the necessary collaboration will require changes for both public health and medicine in leadership styles, professional education, practice incentives, accountability measures, and financing structures.

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