Community, Public Health and Resource Allocation

If 'community' is the answer, what is the problem? While questions undoubtedly arise in allocating resources to public health, such as 'how much?' and 'to whom?', we already have answers based on (i) the observation that disease and illness are bad, (ii) views of justic...

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