The pursuit of health

This paper delineates health legislation through a review of the literature as it relates to the cost of medical care; it also demonstrates a death-coding system that would be compatible with the cause of death and not the disease. Three tables and ten figures depict the leading causes of death by number and rate for Georgia and the U.S., 1900–1973; infectious and chronic disease death rates, U.S., 1900–70; cycles of infectious and chronic disease patterns; health expenditures, U.S., 1930–75, per capita and percent of GNP; an epidemiological model for health policy analysis; and sample certificates of death.