“…health differences between groups and within groups are not driven by clinical care but by social-structural factors that shape our lives.”

Bayer R, and Galea S. Public Health in the Precision-Medicine Era. New England Journal of Medicine. 2015;373(6):499-501. http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1506241?rss=searchAndBrowse

With an audio interview with the author on the NEJM website.

making the public healthy is different from the sum of the provision of targeted therapies to individuals..