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December 2006, Vol 96, No. 12 | American Journal of Public Health 2090-2092
© 2006 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2006.098962

EDITORIAL

Health and Health Care for the 21st Century: For All the People

C. Everett Koop, MD, ScD

C. Everett Koop is a former surgeon general of the United States. He is now with Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH.

Correspondence: Correspondence should be sent to the C. Everett Koop Institute, 7025 Strasenburgh, Hanover, NH 03755–3862.

Because this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.


   INTRODUCTION
 
As I reflect on my more than 6 decades of public health service, I am awed at what has been achieved and shocked at what has not. We can prevent and treat diseases formerly considered capricious death sentences. Yet many proven strategies for preventing disease and disability sit on the shelves. The gaping holes in our health care coverage net leave approximately 47 million Americans without coverage.1 Our capability to prevent and treat disease seems to exceed our willingness to apply our interventions.

Through most of history, medicine could really cure very little, and the concept of science-driven public health . . . [Full Text]


   PEDIATRIC MEDICINE AND SURGERY
 

   HIV/AIDS
 

   TOBACCO
 

   HEALTH CARE REFORM
 

   HEALTH CARE AS A MORAL RIGHT
 

   CORE PRINCIPLES
 

   A PATH FOR THE 21ST CENTURY
 



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