Me vs. Us
A Health Divided
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 14 November 2022
- ISBN 9780197637562
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages176 pages
- Size 147x217x20 mm
- Weight 381 g
- Language English 445
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Short description:
Longtime physician and public health advocate Michael Stein reveals the true differences between public health and medicine--and how we can bridge the divide to solve our most pressing health crises.
MoreLong description:
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.
Stein brilliantly interrogates the tension between individual health and the health of the population. He offers a critically important approach for creating a new partnership between the health care and public health systems. This is a daring and original work for our divided times.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
With Health, as in the rest of life, we think in terms of Me not Us
PART 1
Chapter 1
We are not sure what public health is
Chapter 2
If public health work is preventive, it's invisible, and becomes visible only during crises
Chapter 3
We are not sure who public health is for
Chapter 4
There is little private money to be made in public health
Chapter 5
Public health frames its successes incorrectly
Chapter 6
Public health can only infrequently perform randomized trials and therefore seems less rigorous
Chatper 7
Public health is thought of as government work, primarily for the sake of the poor
Chapter 8
Public health is missing health care's personal stories
PART 2: HEALTH INDIVISIBLE
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