Health, United States, 2006
The latest report on the health of the population of the United States has been published. "Health, United States, 2006, is the 30th annual report on the health status of the Nation prepared by the Secretary of the DHHS for the President and Congress". The report presents trends in health status and health care utilization, resources and expenditure. As a PH practitioner these lines in the executive summary attracted my attention. "The health of
the nation continues to improve overall in many respects, in part because of the significant resources devoted to public health programmes, research, health care and health education".
I found the order in which the interventions are stated with public health programmes in the forefront very reassuring. US colleagues will be able to tell us whether this is simply a rhetoric or in fact a reality. Another interesting point is the reduction in the proportion of visits to office-based doctors that were made to general and family practice physicians by 10% over the last two decades.
The 559 page report is available on line @ http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hus/hus06.pdf
the nation continues to improve overall in many respects, in part because of the significant resources devoted to public health programmes, research, health care and health education".
I found the order in which the interventions are stated with public health programmes in the forefront very reassuring. US colleagues will be able to tell us whether this is simply a rhetoric or in fact a reality. Another interesting point is the reduction in the proportion of visits to office-based doctors that were made to general and family practice physicians by 10% over the last two decades.
The 559 page report is available on line @ http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hus/hus06.pdf
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