New technologies such as ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence natural language processing tool, have the potential to benefit public health but must be approached with caution.
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The “Infrastructure grant” is anticipated to result in substantial and long-lasting structural changes to public health systems, hopefully positioning those systems to better meet the critical challenges.
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Financing is complex, involving many laws, market driving forces, available resources, and tradeoffs for policy makers—a short-term investment may have long-term impacts. There are many options to finance public services, each with their strengths and weaknesses. Securing adequate and sustainable financing for public health services has been a recurring topic in the media lately. Still, it has been a persistent,
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The Complexity of Public Health Public health is a mess of complex networks of relationships among partners who are working toward shared goals and ideals for the public’s health. The “mess” cannot be overstated, given the wide variation across the nation regarding public health authorities, services delivered, and the multitude of partners involved in this system of systems. Each partner
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