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DECISIONS ABOUT HOW TO DELIVER social and health services in Scandinavia are governed largely by the concept of local accountability. The strength of local government is apparent in comparative data from Scandinavia, France, Italy, and Great Britain, which show local government budgets accounting for larger percentages of total government spending

Non-medical care, or social care as it is termed today,

The result was a combination of anarchy and Orwellian bureaucracy with horrifying consequences. Trucks with water and food were halted or diverted or refused entry by authorities—the supplies were not part of their plan. Bus requisitions were held up for days; the official request did not even reach the U.S. Department of Transportation until two d

What we fear in the Norwegian health care system is a development where you care for chronic problems by hospitalizing patients. The idea [in Norway] is to try to manage people in local communities, outside hospitals.

Camilla Cavendish’s Extra Time and Anna Dixon’s The Age of Ageing Better

Keeping Americans at or above a certain baseline of good health requires collective action to assure the availability of such necessities as food, housing, and transportation.

This modeling was carried out by epidemiologist Neil Ferguson of Imperial College in London.

For those interested, a more comprehensive list of policy solutions and opportunities to advance an upstreamist approach can be found at healthbegins.org