Dear Colleague,
Warm greetings and a very good Monday morning to you all from sunny Suffolk
in the East of England.
The latest report on the health of the population of the United States has
been published. “Health, United States, 2006, is the 30th annual report on
the health status of the Nation prepared by the Secretary of the DHHS for
the President and Congress”. The report presents trends in health status and
health care utilization, resources and expenditure. As a PH practitioner
these lines in the executive summary attracted my attention. “The health of
the nation continues to improve overall in many respects, in part because of
the significant resources devoted to public health programmes, research,
health care and health education”.
I found the order in which the interventions are stated with public health
programmes in the forefront very reassuring. US colleagues will be able to
tell us whether this is simply a rhetoric or in fact a reality. Another
interesting point is the reduction in the proportion of visits to
office-based doctors that were made to general and family practice
physicians by 10% over the last two decades.
The 559 page report is available on line @
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hus/hus06.pdf
I thought this report might be of interest to some of our colleagues on the
list.
Warm regards & very best wishes,
Badri
Dr P Badrinath MD BS M.Phil MPH FFPH PhD (Cantab)
Consultant in Public Health Medicine & Affiliated Clinical Lecturer
Suffolk PCT & University of Cambridge
Thingoe House, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, UK
http://myprofile.cos.com/badrishanthi
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