RESUMEN
Today's health system transformation provides a prime opportunity to leverage the capacity of public health to reduce the burden of chronic disease and injury, improve population health, and contain health care costs. Health care settings and organizations should support public health capacity as a key investment in population health.
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Enfermedad Crónica/prevención & control , Política de Salud , Salud Pública , Mejoramiento de la Calidad , Compra Basada en Calidad , Heridas y Lesiones/prevención & control , Reforma de la Atención de Salud , Humanos , North Carolina , Calidad de la Atención de Salud , Estados UnidosRESUMEN
North Carolina has worked to develop an infrastructure and identify priorities to reduce the high morbidity and mortality from injuries. Findings of the North Carolina Institute of Medicine (NCIOM) Task Force on Adolescent Health and the NCIOM Task Force on Prevention, combined with the North Carolina Division of Public Health strategic plan and the Injury and Violence Prevention State Advisory Council, have laid the path toward this goal.