Healthier People: Setting Targets for Life Expectancy and Health Care Expenditures

Affiliations

¹ Sanne Magnan and George Isham are with HealthPartners Institute, Minneapolis, MN. Sanne Magnan is also with the Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Marthe Gold is with the Center for Evaluation and Applied Research, New York Academy of Medicine, New York, NY.

Editorial

Sanne Magnan et al. Am J Public Health. 2020 Dec.

. 2020 Dec;110(12):1733-1734.

doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2020.305976.

¹ Sanne Magnan and George Isham are with HealthPartners Institute, Minneapolis, MN. Sanne Magnan is also with the Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Marthe Gold is with the Center for Evaluation and Applied Research, New York Academy of Medicine, New York, NY.

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