title: The role of public health in population health.
abstract: The role of public health is central in population health. What distinguishes public health from clinical medicine is that it's focus is on the entire population--not the individual patient. To achieve the goal of population health, healthy communities, or Healthy People 2000 requires physician leadership in medicine and public health at all levels--local, state, and national. The challenge is formidable, but the goals are attainable through strategies that focus on the goal of the common good and through collaboration of public health, medicine, and the community.
authors.affiliation: School of Medicine at the University of California-San Francisco's Institute for Health Policy Studies, USA.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Lee
mesh_terms: D018672:Community Health Planning / Q000379:methods*; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D006077:Government Agencies; D006265:Health Care Coalitions / Q000458:organization & administration; D006292:Health Priorities; D006305:Health Status Indicators; D006801:Humans; D007857:Leadership; D010820:Physicians; D011050:Policy Making; D011634:Public Health / Q000639:trends*; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology