ABSTRACT
Though aspirational, such framing sends a clear message: although medical care can blunt or reverse an individual's physical and mental illness, only by adelree·sing core upstream determinants of health- from fundamental (racism, poverty) to social and envirermKmtal (peer education and housing, air pollution) causes-is progress toward im;1 1 lth at the population fevel achievable. .erthe United States temini ies to spend more on health care, and prepertionally less on addressing 1 inderlying causes of ill health, than any other wealthy country. [...]guided by local data and knowledge, resources must be allocated to catalyze measurable gains in public safety, broadly construed. The Healthcare Anchor Network is working with health care systems across the country to lend the economic power ofthe hospital sector to strengthening community health through purposeful investment in social determinants of health.