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Influences On The Health Of Populations: A Closer Look

The American health care system, like those of every industrialized nation, is built around the medical model at the expense of public health. An estimated 95 percent of the U.S. health care economy ($1.3 trillion in 2000) is allocated every year for direct medical care, while only 5 percent of these resources are invested in populationwide approaches to health improvement. This mismatch of resources underscores both the value that industrialized societies attach to modern medicine and the distance they must travel to actually target those measures that have such a great influence on the health status of populations.

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John K. Iglehart

Founding Editor

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