title: Leading by following.
abstract: Hospitals and health systems have learned, from what we call the medicalization of social problems, that many conditions are only treatable, no curable, by the time they reach our doors. Medical efforts to solve substance abuse, poverty, teen pregnancy, or violence are noble but, in the end, ineffectual.
authors: Michigan Hospital Association, Lansing, USA. sjohnson@lans.mha.org
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authors: Johnson
mesh_terms: D018672:Community Health Planning; D006764:Hospitals, Community / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000592:standards; D007857:Leadership; D008824:Michigan; D012940:Social Problems; D012954:Societies, Hospital