Me vs. Us: A Health Divided

by Michael D. Stein

Book Overview

How can we care so much about health care yet so little about public health?

Before Covid-19, public health programs constituted only 2.5 percent of all US health spending, with the other 97.5 percent going towards the larger health care system. In fact, the United States spends on average $11,000 per citizen per year on health care, but only $286 per person on public health. It seems that Americans value health care, the medical...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197637566
• ISBN13: 9780197637562
• Release Date: September 2022
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.5"