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Last year’s Health Affairs public health issue (Jul/Aug 06) represented yet another link in a growing chain of public health policy discourse supporting the importance to overall population health of greater interaction between the public health and health care delivery spheres. The depth and sophistication of our understanding of the full spectrum of the major determinants of health status continue to mature. Increasingly, researchers and policymakers alike are beginning to join advocates in recognizing that access to medical care, although critical, represents only one in a penumbra of factors determinative of population health, including socioeconomic circumstances, environmental conditions, and personal . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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