NEJM July 17, 2020
Massachusetts’ Public Health Commissioner discusses the need to break down barriers within organizations and between public- and private-sector health organizations to achieve better care and health equity for patients and populations.
Summary
The Commissioner for the Massachusetts Department of Public Health explores distinctions among the concepts of public health, population health, and population medicine. She describes her agency’s efforts to leverage big data from health and non-health sources to better understand the social determinants that affect their capacity to focus on health equity.
Namita Seth Mohta, MD, interviews Monica Bharel, MD, MPH, Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of...
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