title: Integrated health care systems governance: prevention of illness and care for the sick and injured.
abstract: The public health aspects of promotion of health and prevention of illness take on a different vision when one moves from biological concerns to social and societal dyscrasias. Social illness is as much the concern of a hospital system board and its medical staff as the biomedical dyscrasias which are the traditional concerns of public health agencies. An organizational entity under a board of trustee's auspices must become involved because all social illnesses end up requiring physician and hospital care.
authors.affiliation: Toomey Consulting Services, Inc., Greenville, South Carolina, USA.
authors.forename: R E
authors.initials: RE
authors.lastname: Toomey
mesh_terms: D003153:Community Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D003659:Decision Making, Organizational; D019033:Delivery of Health Care, Integrated / Q000458:organization & administration*; D005544:Forecasting; D006075:Governing Board / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D020380:Needs Assessment / Q000458:organization & administration; D011322:Primary Prevention / Q000458:organization & administration*; D012940:Social Problems / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology