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The Department of Social Medicine has a distinguished history of scholarship
and advocacy related to broad issues of social policy and the organization
and financing of American medicine, which continues to the present.
Department of Social Medicine faculty involved in the social studies
of medicine and health policy include leading statesmen, researchers
and leaders of American medicine who remain quite active both nationally
and in the life of the department. These faculty members have carried
out research, written and lectured about a wide range of issues including:
the crucial role of preschool education for the health of children;
inequities in health services for children and adolescents; substance
abuse policies; for-profit health care and its implications for physicians'
practices and quality of care; inequalities in health care associated
with lack of health care coverage; the redesigning and financing of
American system of health care delivery.
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