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Keeping People Healthy: Visits to the Doc Not Enough

Irwin Gratz
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Maine Public
Ron Deprez, president of the Public Health Research Institute in Deer Isle.

PORTLAND, Maine - How do we get - and keep - people healthy? Some would say a visit to the doctor is a must. But Ron Deprez, president of the Public Health Research Institute in Deer Isle, tells Irwin Gratz that’s only part of the answer. The rest is detailed in a recent Maine Policy Review article Deprez wrote entitled “Population Health Improvement.” Here's an excerpt of their conversation.