Future of Public Health

Here’s one scenario:  “Funding cuts and a hostile political context undermine the role of public health agencies. Public health crises grow worse and more frequent, largely due to climate change. Private sector initiatives produce significant innovations for health and wellness, but these primarily benefit the middle class and affluent. Technological, economic, educational, and health disparities grow, and public health institutions have little capacity to do anything about them.”  Who knows what will happen tomorrow, much less sixteen years hence?  But it’s worth reflecting that over the past century, public health much more than medicine has made health a more achievable goal, and the rising giant of retail healthcare actually is a public health force. MORE

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