CPB and Steve Sanchez on Public Health

Prevention-first, against the status quo

Chris Brandlin and Steve Sanchez on public health in Nevada — the case for prevention-first medicine over a system organised around treating disease once it arrives.

What this conversation adds to the shorter clips is the state-level specificity. Prevention is often discussed as a federal or clinical matter, but a good deal of what determines population health is decided in Carson City: school meal standards, physical-education requirements, Medicaid programme design, and public-health authority.

Their contention is that these are treated as minor administrative questions when they are among the highest-leverage decisions the Legislature makes.

Related: prevention over prescription, public health as the foundation, and health belongs to the states.

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