Embedding Prevention at the Heart of the US Health Conversation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11031469 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sandro Galea (0000-0002-7534-0945, Sandro Galea is with the School of Public Health, Boston University, Boston, MA. Roger Vaughan is an AJPH associate editor and is with the Department of Biostatistics, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY.), Roger Vaughan (0000-0002-1336-4079, Sandro Galea is with the School of Public Health, Boston University, Boston, MA. Roger Vaughan is an AJPH associate editor and is with the Department of Biostatistics, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY.), Roger A Vaughan (0000-0002-4593-8807, Rockefeller University) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 111 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 17-19 |
| Publication date | 2021-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Public Health (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0090-0036 • E-ISSN: 1541-0048 |
| Publisher | American Public Health Association (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2105/ajph.2020.306009 |
| PMID | 33326285 |
| OpenAlex | W3111334152 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 5 |
[ ]the pandemic quickly made clear that despite our overwhelming global and national investment in health care and medicine, when the world faces an unprecedented surge in a novel disease, health care systems are simply not up to the challenge and our only viable approach to protect health is preventing the health problem to begin with LEVERS FOR PREVENTION It is, of course, odd that it took a global pandemic to remind us that prevention of disease is a far preferable approach to promoting the public's health than is treatment once we are already sick [ ]perhaps underlyingthe first and second reasons, is that prevention simply is not at the heart of the US health conversation Decades of investment in curative care, resulting in the most expensive health care system in the world, has resulted in a US system that privileges treatment, and, perhaps more importantly, treatment is seen as the fundamental purpose of the health system
Business · Conversation · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) · Disease · Disease prevention · Economic growth · Economics · Environmental health · Global health · Health care · Infectious disease (medical specialty) · International health · Investment (military) · Pandemic · Political science · Public health · Public relations · Sociology · Healthcare cost, quality, practices · Law · Medicine · Nursing · Primary Care and Health Outcomes · Public Health Policies and Education · Health Policy
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,4 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |