Paul Laris

Jul 5, 2023 | johnmenadue.com | Paul Laris |Fran Baum

The overall capture of the meaning of “health” by the medical industrial complex and its hospital systems and departments has helped to hide the absence of policy and structures to specifically address the health of the public. It’s time we named our health departments to describe what they actually do – provide illness care -and time to make health and equity explicit central goals of the whole system of government.