Rural Public Health Issues and Considerations: A Report to the Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

摘要

Public health is often referred to as the foundation of the health care system, but many signs point to emerging structural problems. Recent reports document the steady deterioration of the national public health system. Health departments are closing. Technology and information systems are outmoded. Emerging and drug-resistant diseases threaten to overwhelm resources and serious training inadequacies threaten the capacity of the public health workforce to address new threats and adapt to changes in the health care market.