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  • How much does health care contribute to health? [FAQ]

      03/27/2014
      Austin Frakt

    This is a FAQ entry. See the main FAQ index for others.

    • On the paper that underlies the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s County Health Rankings
    • On an infographic that access to health care plays only a 10% role in health*
    • My frustration with the literature on this subject
    • Adrianna’s post on Project Millennial, chasing citations potentially related to that infographic
    • My post on Adrianna’s post and some conclusions
    • One of several posts on David Cutler’s work, and that of others, that suggests that over the second half of the 20th century “50% of declines in mortality [were] due to medical care”
    • A post on the AcademyHealth blog making the case that half of longevity gains are due to health care
    • A post by Aaron that goes over much of this, linking to some of the above
    • A post by Garret Johnson that also covers much of this

    * It is in the comments to this post that, on June 6, 2012, Adrianna—previously anonymous to us—made her TIE debut. She followed up with a wonky and helpful email the next day (screenshot below). This is the TIE-Adrianna origin story, about which we marvel. It is astonishing how much can follow from an email.

    TIE-AM first contact

    (Also, one day before her blog comment, on June 5th, Adrianna, along with Karan Chhabra, launched Project Millennial. )

    @afrakt, with help from Adrianna (@onceuponA)

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