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Improving Population Health

WEBBy Bridget B. Catlin, PhD, MHSA. Today, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute …

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What Is Population Health

WEBPopulation health is defined as the health outcomes of a group of individuals, including the distribution of such outcomes within the group. (3,4) These groups are often geographic …

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Community Health Needs Assessments – An Opportunity to Bring …

WEBBy Michael A. Stoto, PhD. Population health is fundamentally about measuring health outcomes and their upstream determinants and using these measures …

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Defining and Measuring Health Outcomes

WEBFor the County Health Rankings we chose five measures of health outcomes and 23 measures of health factors that were available in nearly all of the …

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The National Policy Front

WEBBy David A. Kindig, MD, PhD. Last week marked the release of the Annual Status Report and Action Plan of the National Prevention, Health Promotion, and Public …

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County Health Rankings & Roadmaps

WEBBy David A. Kindig MD, PhD and Kirstin Q. Siemering DrPH, RD. On April 3 rd 2012, the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute will make applications …

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Leadership and Collaboration

WEBJW: In 2005, IHI had a vision to work on three simultaneous aims: improving the experience of care, improving the health of populations, and reducing per capita costs of health …

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What Is the Difference between Population Health and Public …

WEBThe distinction between public health and population health deserves attention since it has been at times both confusing and even divisive. Traditionally, public health has been …

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Policies and Programs

WEBAs the model shows, policies and programs play an important role in health improvement through their influence on health factors as well as health outcomes. The finite and …

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What Works for Health – A New Tool from County Health …

WEBWhat Works for Health is an easy-to-use, searchable menu of policies and programs with a broad scope--it is based on the County Health Rankings model and …

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Improving Population Health: Population Health Basics

WEBPopulation medicine…takes a population perspective from a healthcare system base. It encompasses the intersection between the health care system and …

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The IOM Reports on Investing in a Healthier Future

WEBBy David A. Kindig, MD, PhD. I’ve been waiting with anticipation for last week’s IOM report on For the Public's Health: Investing in a Healthier Future, from the …

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Obstacles to Population Health Policy: Is Anyone Accountable

WEBThe editorial staff gratefully acknowledges funding support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for this blog. Content does not necessarily represent the …

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Is Population Health Finally Coming into Its Own

WEBThe State of Minnesota has invested $43M in its State Health Improvement Plan to create "accountable health communities" that address obesity and tobacco …

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How Healthy is Your Community

WEBBy Patrick Remington, MD, MPH. Nearly everyone would like to know the answer to the question, “How healthy is your community?” One way this question is …

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Population Health Eye on Affordable and Healthy Housing for All

WEBNew York City provides an excellent case-in-point: New York County (a.k.a. Manhattan) ranked 25 of 62 (total counties in the state) in the 2011 County Health …

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What Are Population Health Outcomes

WEBMany health improvement models have identified two broad outcome goals: increasing overall or mean population health and eliminating disparities within the population. The …

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How Much Can Expanded Community Health Centers Do

WEBThe editorial staff gratefully acknowledges funding support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for this blog. Content does not necessarily represent the …

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Improving Population Health: Posts from January 2012

WEBBy David A. Kindig, MD, PhD. My professional coming of age took place the late 1960s, in one of the original Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) neighborhood health centers …

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2013 County Health Rankings -- and Much More

WEBBy Bridget B. Catlin, PhD, MHSA. Today, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute …

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An Environmental Scan of Integrated Approaches for Defining …

WEBsubpopulation of patients receiving care from a facility within the clinical care system. the health of a population measured by health status indicators; influenced by physical, …

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Improving Population Health: Posts from November 2012

WEBBy David A. Kindig, MD, PhD. I was in New York City a couple of weeks ago giving several lectures. How strange it was to fly in over the city lights, cab through a recently flooded …

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