Monday, December 7, 2009

Health Care vs. Environment/Behavior

This op-ed column in the NYTimes brings up the question of how much of a given disease's burden is attributable to health care vs. behavior. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/06/opinion/06kristof.html?_r=2 There's nothing particularly profound about it, but it's a good example of how the public grapples with what we have studied to be the 10%-40% breakdown (10% due to health care, 40% due to lifestyle).

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