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From the Editor

The Pursuit Of Public Health: How Serious Is Society?

The United States, like every industrialized nation, devotes most of its health-related expenditures to financing medical care, even though having access to such services is far from the major determinant of an individual’s health status. The failure of society to recognize other major determinants of health—socioeconomic circumstances, environmental conditions, and behavioral choices—has been an important factor in the deterioration of the nation’s public health system, because it is this system that addresses these determinants. As Sen. Bill Frist (R-TN) aptly describes in this issue (p. 117), the public health infrastructure lacks "focus, funding, and national attention."

This sorry state of . . . [Full Text of this Article]

John K. Iglehart

Founding Editor

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