RT Book, Section A1 Burns, Lawton Robert SR Print(0) ID 1180254971 T1 The Public Health System T2 The U.S. Healthcare Ecosystem: Payers, Providers, Producers YR 2021 FD 2021 PB McGraw-Hill PP New York, NY SN 9781264264476 LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1180254971 RD 2024/03/29 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