Integrated health care systems governance: Prevention of illness and care for the sick and injured

The public health aspects of promotion of health and prevention of illness take on a different vision when one moves from biological concerns to social and societal dyscrasias. Social illness is as much the concern of a hospital system board and its medical staff as the biomedical dyscrasias which are the traditional concerns of public health agencies. An organizational entity under a board of trustee's auspices must become involved because all social illnesses end up requiring physician and hospital care.