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| Executive Summary | |
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| Areas of Action and Change | |
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| Findings and Recommendations | |
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| Assuring America's Health | |
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| Achievement and Disappointment | |
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| Health as a Social and Political Undertaking | |
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| Issues That May Shape the Nation's Health Status | |
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| The Public Health System and Its Key Actors | |
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| Present and Future Changes Needed for a Healthy Nation | |
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| Broad Trends Influencing the Nation's Health | |
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| Concluding Observations | |
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| Understanding Population Health and Its Determinants | |
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| A Population Perspective | |
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| The Physical Environment as a Determinant of Health | |
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| The Social Determinants of Health | |
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| Population-Level Preventive Interventions | |
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| The Public Health System in Action: A Scenario | |
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| Concluding Observations | |
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| The Governmental Public Health Infrastructure | |
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| Prior Assessments of the Public Health Infrastructure | |
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| The Role of Governments in Public Health: An Overview and Legal Framework | |
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| The Federal Public Health Infrastructure | |
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| Critical Components of the Public Health Infrastructure | |
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| Financing the Public Health Infrastructure | |
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| Concluding Observations | |
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| The Community | |
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| Defining the Community | |
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| Community-Based Collaboration | |
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| Framework for Collaborative Community Action on Health | |
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| Evaluating and Researching Community Health Improvement | |
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| Sustaining Community Action on Health | |
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| Concluding Observations | |
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| The Health Care Delivery System | |
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| Access to Health Care | |
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| Neglected Care | |
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| Problems in Quality of Care | |
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| Capacity of the Health Care System to Serve the Population | |
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| Collaboration with Governmental Public Health Agencies | |
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| Collaboration with Other Public Health System Actors | |
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| Implications of Growing Health Care Costs | |
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| Concluding Observations | |
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| Employers and Business | |
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| Employers' Role in Health Insurance Coverage | |
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| Employers' Role in Assuring Health Care Quality | |
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| Employer Interest in Promoting the Health of Employees: A Rationale for Corporate Investment in Health | |
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| Role of Businesses and Industries in Promoting a Healthy Environment | |
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| A Case for Improving the Health and Well-Being of Communities | |
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| Concluding Observations | |
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| Media | |
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| News Media and the National Public Agenda | |
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| News Media as a Catalyst to Promote Health at the Community Level | |
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| News Media Coverage and Health Information | |
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| Media and Health Communication | |
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| Health Communication Campaigns: Theory, Evaluation, and Research Needs | |
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| Concluding Observations | |
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| Academia | |
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| Education and Training | |
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| Research | |
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| Service | |
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| Concluding Observations | |
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| Appendixes | |
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| Models of Health Determinants | |
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| Models for Collaborative Planning in Communities | |
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| Recommendations from The Future of Public Health | |
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| Healthy People 2010 Objectives for the Public Health Infrastructure | |
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| Competencies for Public Health Workers: A Collection of Competency Sets for Public Health-Related Occupations and Professions | |
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| Data-Gathering Activities | |
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| Agendas for Public Committee Meetings | |
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| Committee Biographies | |
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| Index | |