Health is driven by four factors: clinical (10%), social (20%), genetics (30%), and behavior (40%).

And yet, over 80% of our current health spending is on clinical services.

The result? A declining life span and the highest cost per capita in the world. None of us working in public health or medicine should be satisfied with that result.

We can do better.

The global pandemic has ushered in a brand new day and unprecedented opportunities in medicine and public health:

The opportunity to change the systems of medicine and public health for the better has never been greater.

The good news? The pot of money being spent on health and health care is abundant.

The bad news? It’s not being spent in the right places.

The questions we must all ask ourselves right now are:

Imagine if we systematically joined the care of the individual (medicine) to the care of the community (public health). How could that change health outcomes now and for the future?

Both/And: Medicine & Public Health Together illuminates the path to create an ongoing partnership between public health and medicine, and shows the measurable return on investment already being seen in early adopter communities.

Dr. Katie Kaney, a health thought leader with 25 years of experience spanning public health, healthcare, and business, shows exactly how we can use this unprecedented time in human history to make changes to our current health systems now that will pay dividends for decades.

Endorsement:

"Following the passage of the Medicare Act way back in 1965, Public Health and Health Care parted ways and have never reconciled! Our nation wants an instant fix in an emergency and otherwise believes that healthcare means low prices for pharmaceuticals. While, sadly, our average life expectancy has been steadily declining and our $4 Trillion investment in delivering health care services has utterly failed to improve health. Enter Katie Kaney and her new book where she provides a road map to bring health care and public health side by side on the road to a future of improved health for entire nation. Policymakers, doctors, insurance companies, and in fact all healthcare stakeholders should read this new book so we can reconcile, once and for all, health care and public health. Kudos to Katie for showing us the future."

David B. Nash, MD, MBA
Founding Dean Emeritus
Dr. Raymond C. & Doris N. Grandon Professor of Health Policy
Jefferson College of Population Health

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