title: Better than a cure.
abstract: A brief glance through the national papers and medical press shows the depth of concern with the cost of delivering high quality, free at the point of access healthcare to the population. However, at a time of increasingly greater demands being placed on public health systems across the globe, the question of how we can make health and healthcare both accessible to everyone and sustainable in the long term is being posed. In this paper we provide an insight into how England is responding to these challenges.
authors.affiliation: Department of Health, Richmond House, 79 Whitehall, London SW1A 2NS, UK.
authors.forename: Fiona
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Adshead
authors.forename: Allison
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Thorpe
mesh_terms: D002908:Chronic Disease / Q000191:economics / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control; D004739:England; D005515:Food Labeling / Q000592:standards; D015438:Health Behavior; D005102:Health Expenditures / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006292:Health Priorities; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000191:economics / Q000379:methods*; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D006801:Humans; D011634:Public Health / Q000191:economics / Q000379:methods*; D012907:Smoking / Q000191:economics / Q000453:epidemiology; D000074606:Smoking Prevention; D040241:Social Marketing; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013222:State Medicine / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*