Archives: Avoidable mortality

Wednesday, February 28, 2024

Mehdi Ammi and Antoine Dedewanou on the value of public health expenditures in Social Science & Medicine

Public health operates in the shadow. Surveilling and preventing disease, as well as promoting and protecting health are the missions of public health, but these missions result in outcomes mostly unobserved: diseases and deaths that are avoided. For these reasons, only a small fraction of health expenditures is allocated to public health.... More

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