A System for Health, Not a Health Care System.

N C Med J

Professor, UNC School of Medicine, Department of Family Medicine; associate director for medical education, North Carolina AHEC; UNC Sheps Center for Health Services Research, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Published: May 2022

Clinical care makes a modest contribution to well-being, but adequate access to high-quality care is a necessary, if insufficient, condition for health. This issue of the focuses on the Healthy North Carolina 2030 clinical indicators, the impact of health disparities, and the COVID-19 pandemic.

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