Regina Benjamin, US Surgeon General, led a panel discussion on the National Prevention Strategy, the nation’s first overarching plan to incorporate preventive health care measures into our national health policy and practice. The prevention strategy is a key element of the Affordable Care health care reform initiative.
“Health does not occur in the doctor’s office alone,” Benjamin said. “If we really want to reform health care in this country we need to prevent people from getting sick in the first place.”
The March 21 event, which occurred at a packed auditorium at Harvard Medical School, was organized by Doctors for America and co-sponsored by the HMS Center for Primary Care and several other partner organizations.
