Practical Playbook
lborkowski | March 5, 2014Brian Castrucci, who’s worked in city and state health departments and is now Chief Program and Strategy Director at the de Beaumont Foundation, likes to ask people two questions: Do you know who your primary care provider is? And, Do you know who’s head of your local public health department? The fact that many people can answer the first question but not the second, he says, demonstrates why public health needs to partner with health care.
“US medical providers are giving people some of the best medical care in the world, but if they’re returning patients to communities and environments…