Many health discussions focus on “access to hospitals.” But, people often reach hospitals too late.
The bigger problem isn’t just access. It’s late detection, late action, and late systems.
Think about it this way:
• Hypertension is “treated” in clinics
• But it is created through food environments, stress, urban design, and policy
When we judge a system only by hospital outcomes, we miss where health is actually produced: in communities, schools, workplaces, and legislation.
Healthcare treats individuals. Public health shapes probabilities. If our goal is healthier societies, the real question is not:
“How many hospitals do we have?”
It is:
“How hard is it to live a healthy life in this system?”
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