Population Health: Transforming Health Care to Improve Our Health

• By: Lloyd I. Sederer, MD New York State Office of Mental Health (OMH)
• October 1st, 2014
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As the debate about improving health in the United States wages on, it turns out that only 10 percent of our health status and longevity, experts declare, derives from health care. What Makes Us Sick? As the Determinants of Health pie chart reveals (see page 36), it is our behaviors, our habits...