Celebrating National Public Health Week

I am happy to join in the celebration of National Public Health Week. Although the readers of this journal are already keenly aware of the contributions of public health to the health of the nation, it is important for the rest of the country to be more aware as well. So much of our attention has been on how much we spend on health care or how many uninsured remain among us—both important issues—that sometimes we seem to lose track of where we are in terms of the health of the country and what we can do to improve it