Citation

Petersen R, Rushing J, Nelson S, Rhyne S. N. Carol. Med. J. 2016; 77(4): 257-260.

Affiliation

program manager, Chronic Disease and Injury Section, North Carolina Division of Public Health, North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Raleigh, North Carolina.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, Medical Society of the State of North Carolina)

DOI

10.18043/ncm.77.4.257

PMID

27422946

Abstract

Today's health system transformation provides a prime opportunity to leverage the capacity of public health to reduce the burden of chronic disease and injury, improve population health, and contain health care costs. Health care settings and organizations should support public health capacity as a key investment in population health.

©2016 by the North Carolina Institute of Medicine and The Duke Endowment. All rights reserved.

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