Getting to Average Life Expectancy: It Takes Commitment

Affiliations

¹ Steven Teutsch is with the Department of Health Policy and Management, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles; the Public Health Institute, Oakland, CA; and the Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles.

Editorial

Steven M Teutsch. Am J Public Health. 2018 Jan.

. 2018 Jan;108(1):17-18.

doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2017.304190.

¹ Steven Teutsch is with the Department of Health Policy and Management, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles; the Public Health Institute, Oakland, CA; and the Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles.

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Meeting the Institute of Medicine's 2030 US Life Expectancy Target.
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