If I get really sick or badly injured, I want the best of modern medical care. But, to paraphrase the British economist Paula Lanza, Americans confound health with health care. As little as 10% of our health derives from health care; the remaining 90% is from our habits (behaviours), our environment, and our genetics (and our genes are turned on and off by the former two factors). If we want a healthy and safe life, we should not look to better pills or potions, to more shiny hospitals and equipment, or to medical innovation (except from continued public health advances).

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为健康而建

如果我真的生病或重伤，我想要最好的现代医疗服务。但是，用英国经济学家宝拉·兰扎（Paula Lanza）来解释，美国人把健康与医疗保健混为一谈。我们只有10％的健康来自医疗保健；剩下的90％来自我们的习惯（行为），我们的环境和我们的遗传学（而我们的基因受前两个因素影响）。如果我们想要健康安全的生活，我们不应寻求更好的药丸或药水，更光鲜的医院和设备或医疗创新（除非持续不断的公共卫生事业）。