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Epidemiological Considerations Underlying the Allocation of Health and Disease Care Resources

WARREN WINKELSTEIN, Jr.1

1 Epidemiology Program, School of Public Health, University of California Berkeley, California 94720, U.S.A.

Winkelstein, W. (Epidemiology Program, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, California, U.SA). Enidfimioloaical considerations underlvina the allocation of health and disease care resources. Int. J. Epid. 1972,1:69–74.

Examples of disease trends have been analysed to support the hypothesis that the environment is the primary determinant of the health status of the population rather than the quality and quantity of available medical care. Even though certain medical care measures can prevent specific diseases, more attention and resources should be directed to identify the specific components of the environment which promote health. If diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of the sick were properly called disease care, perhaps there would be greater emphasis and funding for those measures which truly influence the health of the population and which are properly called health care.


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