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Abstract

The Patchwork U.S. Public Health System

The U.S. public health system is an uneven patchwork. In the shadow of a pandemic, understanding this haphazard architecture is a step toward elucidating the U.S. paradox of enormous health expenditures but poor outcomes for population health.

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Title
The Patchwork U.S. Public Health System
Author
Wallace, Megan; Sharfstein, Joshua M 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo 

 From the Department of Epidemiology (M.W.) and the Department of Health Policy and Management (J.M.S.), Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore. 
Pages
1-4
Section
Perspective Fundamentals of Public Health
Publication year
2022
Publication date
Jan 6, 2022
Publisher
Massachusetts Medical Society
ISSN
00284793
e-ISSN
15334406
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2616985909
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