Necessary But Not Sufficient: Why Health Care Alone Cannot Improve Population Health and Reduce Health Inequities

doi:10.1370/afm.2395

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. 2019 May;17(3):196-199.

doi: 10.1370/afm.2395.

Necessary But Not Sufficient: Why Health Care Alone Cannot Improve Population Health and Reduce Health Inequities

Steven H Woolf¹

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¹ Department of Family Medicine and Population Health and Center on Society and Health, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virgina steven.woolf@vcuhealth.org.

PMID: 31085522
PMCID: PMC6827630
DOI: 10.1370/afm.2395

Editorial

Necessary But Not Sufficient: Why Health Care Alone Cannot Improve Population Health and Reduce Health Inequities

Steven H Woolf. Ann Fam Med. 2019 May.

. 2019 May;17(3):196-199.

doi: 10.1370/afm.2395.

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Steven H Woolf¹

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¹ Department of Family Medicine and Population Health and Center on Society and Health, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virgina steven.woolf@vcuhealth.org.

PMID: 31085522
PMCID: PMC6827630
DOI: 10.1370/afm.2395

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Keywords: health equity; population health; social determinants of health.

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[1] National Center for Health Statistics. Health, United States, 2017: With Special Feature on Mortality. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics; 2018. - PubMed

[2] National Center for Health Statistics. Health, United States, 2017: With Special Feature on Mortality. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics; 2018. - PubMed

[3] Murphy SL, Xu JQ, Kochanek KD, Arias E. Mortality in the United States, 2017. NCHS Data Brief, no 328 Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics; 2018. - PubMed

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