Talk:Public medicine

Public medicine article
I have created this article because public medicine or public health is the term most widely used to describe the activity of the state (national, regional or local government) in health care.

There are already well developed articles on socialized medicine (a horribly biased term for what I would call public medicine) and publicly-funded health care. There is already an article on public health which seems mostly to talk about the topic from a US perspective because it does not discuss the direct delivery of health care by government as for example happens in many European countries. Because in the UK and in Finland where I have lived, the term public medicine is used to distinguish between it and private medicine, I though it best to creat a public medicine article.

I know that the term has many meaninings depending on national usage, but the term is definitely in use (as for example schools or institutes of public medicine).

I know that the article has no references at present but I hope that others will help develop the article from here on.--Tom (talk) 09:13, 11 January 2008 (UTC)