id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-252111-hllama3i Beitsch, Leslie M. The Medicine and Public Health Initiative Ten Years Later 2005-08-31 .txt text/plain 3477 182 45 In order to highlight the importance of strengthening this partnership, this paper reviews the 10-year history of the MPHI, discusses some of the current MPHI activities in three bellwether states (Texas, Florida, and California), as well as internation-ally, and issues recommendations for a renewed partnership between the fields of medicine and public health. What began as a meeting between California Medical Association leadership and local health officials has evolved into a much more inclusive steering committee with attendance by numerous community-based organizations as well as its charter members, medicine and public health. The partners conducted state and local level continuing education programs to focus medicine and public health collaborative efforts on health priorities within Texas. ./cache/cord-252111-hllama3i.txt ./txt/cord-252111-hllama3i.txt