MedPage Today March 19, 2019
Joyce Frieden

– ‘People are dying prematurely … We’ve got to stand up and do better’

Fixing problems with people’s social determinants of health is an urgent issue for the healthcare community and beyond, Karen DeSalvo, MD, MPH, said here Tuesday at a Population Health Colloquium sponsored by Thomas Jefferson University.

“The stakes are really high,” said DeSalvo, who is professor of population health at the University of Texas at Austin and former National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. “People are dying prematurely … That’s worrisome to me as a citizen and a doctor and a public health professional. We’ve got to stand up and do better.”

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