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Calling deaths ‘preventable’ can obscure barriers to health care access and shift blame to individuals

  • Written by Zachary W. Schulz, Senior Lecturer of History, Auburn University
imageDeaths from so-called preventable causes often follow familiar policy lines.Tonpor Kasa/iStock via Getty Images Plus

Each year in the U.S., tens of thousands of deaths are categorized as “preventable” — meaning, in theory, they did not need to happen. A missed cancer screening, a fatal asthma attack or a death from untreated...

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