Abstract
There is no question that the United States health system is the best in the world when it comes to providing care to individual patients. Of course, having high quality health care outcomes when individuals get sick is not the same as having a healthy population. In fact, as a nation we rank thirty-seventh on the World Health Association’s listing that compares the overall health of nations’ populations.1 This disparity between the superb care we provide to individuals and the poor overall health of our population is a significant problem, especially since we spend more per capita on health care than any other industrialized nation. Health is defined by the World Health Association as “a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.”2
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