TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - The Public Health System A1 - Burns, Lawton Robert PY - 2021 T2 - The U.S. Healthcare Ecosystem: Payers, Providers, Producers AB - Chapter 3 defined “health” as a state of complete physical, mental, spiritual, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. This chapter focuses on “public health.” While there is no standard definition, public health has been described as “what we as a society do collectively to assure the conditions in which people can be healthy.”1 SN - PB - McGraw-Hill CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/29 UR - accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1180254971 ER -