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Me vs. Us - A Health Divided (Hardcover)
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Me vs. Us - A Health Divided (Hardcover)
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How can we care so much about health care yet so little about
public health? Before Covid-19, public health programs constituted
only 2.5 percent of all US health spending, with the other 97.5
percent going towards the larger health care system. In fact, the
United States spends on average $11,000 per citizen per year on
health care, but only $286 per person on public health. It seems
that Americans value health care, the medical care of individuals,
over public health, the well-being of collections of people. In Me
vs. Us, primary care doctor and public health advocate Michael
Stein takes a hard, insightful look at the larger questions behind
American health and health care. He offers eight reasons why our
interest in the technologies and delivery of health care supersedes
our interest in public health and its focus on the core social,
economic, and environmental forces that shape health. Stein
documents how public health has continually "lost out" to
medicine-from a loss in funding and resources to how we view our
personal priorities-and suggests how public health may hold the
solutions to our most concerning crises, from pandemics to obesity
to climate change. Me vs. Us concludes that individual and public
health are inseparable. In the end, Stein argues, we need to
recover and sharpen our sense of health based on a reverent
appreciation of both perspectives.
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