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Inadequate attention to and investment in services that address the broader determinants of health is the unnamed culprit behind why the United States spends so much on health care but continues to lag behind in health outcomes.

In a study using data from the Centers for Disease Control/National Center for Health Statistics from 1999 to 2001, Professors Mark Cullen, Clint Cummins, and Victor Fuchs from Stanford University reported that a common set of twenty-two socioeconomic and environmental variables (including education, income, air pollution, and access to healthy foo

A key difference between countries is the extent to which the risk, and therefore the costs, of individuals needing a lot of care, are shared or ‘pooled’ across the whole population.

As chronic disease came to replace communicable diseases atop the list of medicine’s priorities, realms of an individual’s life that had heretofore been considered private and therefore forbidden from physician inquiry, such as diet or marital relationships, came to be seen as important determinants of health.