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It may have more citations but it has a distinct definition: "Public health: The approach to medicine that is concerned with the health of the community as a whole."
[1]. More at this site. It is also well addressed at
public health.
There is overlap but not identity: publicly-funded health care can look after the health of the individual, while public health care may look above all at issues that effect the health of the community, like diseases and epidemics. There should certainly be an article on public health care but they are not the same thing.
It is worth noting that in the context of "public vs private health care" the distinction may not be preserved, and this can be noted, but misuse or popular use of a term should not define the usage here.--
Gregalton (
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06:59, 22 February 2008 (UTC)reply
Public health is not public health care. Many of those sources refer to public health care systems (meaning whole healthcare sector). --
Doopdoop (
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22:43, 22 February 2008 (UTC)reply
All the more reason to use a title here that allows a distinction. This article deals specifically with public health care that is publicly-funded; the public health article with public health. Changing it to public health care would just confuse the issue further.--
Gregalton (
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08:24, 23 February 2008 (UTC)reply
This article also covers healthcare systems that are quasi-publicly funded (e.g. Germany), and public healthcare would be better description for them. Also the term "public health care system" has more citations in Google Scholar than "publicly funded health care". --
Doopdoop (
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19:48, 23 February 2008 (UTC)reply
The first point seems to be one that could be addressed in the article (by specifying or clarifying), and I don't find the second compelling for reasons mentioned above.--
Gregalton (
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11:11, 24 February 2008 (UTC)reply
The United States is considering a bill that includes a public insurance company to act as a standard to other public insurance companies. Has this approach ever been used in other countries? Was it successful? I feel this should be added into the main article
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06:05, 21 August 2009 (UTC)reply