Public Health
Volume 120, Issue 11 , Pages 1008-1012, November 2006

Better than a Cure

  • Fiona Adshead

      Affiliations

    • Department of Health, Richmond House, 79 Whitehall, London SW1A 2NS, UK
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author.
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  • Allison Thorpe

      Affiliations

    • Thames Valley Strategic Health Authority, UK

Summary 

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.

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PII: S0033-3506(06)00254-X

doi:10.1016/j.puhe.2006.08.015

Public Health
Volume 120, Issue 11 , Pages 1008-1012, November 2006