Public heath, not health care, will lower Texans’ medical costs
. But preventing disease and injury in our community goes far beyond slowing viruses, providing vaccinations or changing behaviors.Public health experts, like Marks, gather data on who is getting sick and injured, where the health care burden is highest, and ask what experts can do about it. Conducting research and advocating for change has become the foundation’s mission.
“Five-plus years ago, you could not get people in the medical community to talk about social determinants,” Marks said. “I remember sitting in a meeting next to a doctor several years ago when somebody was presenting the basic social determinants, stuff that I can recite my sleep. He leaned over and said, ‘I’ve never heard this before.
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