Why Health Care Alone Will Never Make A City Healthy
The post Why Health Care Alone Will Never Make A City Healthy appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Nashville, Tennessee, USA skyline over the Cumberland River at sunset. getty The city thrives when residents thrive. That simple sentence captures why we started NashvilleHealth more than a decade ago. It also captures a paradox that has troubled me for years. Nashville is known across the country, and increasingly around the world, as a health care services capital. We have outstanding hospitals, world-class physicians, superb nurses, three respected medical schools, innovative health care companies, and deep philanthropic and civic traditions. We are the home to many national health care corporate offices. In many ways, Nashville has more health care assets than cities many times our size. And yet, when we look honestly at the health of our people, the picture is far from what it should be. Here is the view from 10 years ago: By basic measures of population health — how long people live