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Public Health Infrastructure And Capacity

As noted by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) in 2002, "By every measure, we are healthier, live longer, and enjoy lives that are less likely to be marked by injuries, ill health, or premature death." The U.S. public health enterprise must be seen as one of the great unsung heroes of this story. For decades it has labored dutifully in relative obscurity to implement interventions that reduced rates of illness and death. That it has done so in an environment where as much as 95 percent of health care–related spending has been allocated to medical care and biomedical research, not . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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