Rolling out a Population Health and Quality-Improvement Plan: The Case for a Measured ApproachHospitals alone can no longer be the focal point of the healthcare system's development. Insurers and policymakers have shifted the focus of the system to caring for...
Intervene at the point of care by using evidence-based screening tools and suggested goals/activities in your patient’s care plan. Make the most of your community investments by detecting areas of vulnerability down to the census block group. Inform community health needs assessments, community ben...
The goal of this review is to describe diabetes within a population health improvement framework and to review the evidence for a diabetes population health continuum of intervention approaches, including diabetes prevention and chronic and acute diabetes management, to improve clinical and economic outcom...
” Vice President of Healthcare Improvement at the American Diabetes Association, Nuha El Sayed, MD, MMSc, said in apress release. “Our work together will support the care of people with diabetes through primary care providers.”
While Human Factors (HF) methods have been applied to the design of decision support systems (DSS) to aid clinical decision-making, the role of HF to improve decision-support for population health outcomes is less understood. We sought to comprehensively understand how HF methods have been used...
select article Factors affecting the physical and mental health of older adults in China: The importance of marital status, child proximity, and gender Research articleOpen access Factors affecting the physical and mental health of older adults in China: The importance of marital status, child proxim...
healthcare. Being an integral part of healthcare, patients serve as one of the major drivers in the improvement of the overall picture. Properly engaging them not just to improve their individual health but for improving the entire population health is a must and cannot be neglected in the ...
The NPHG system I developed more than ten years ago (as of 2016) produces unique disease and health related cartographic interpretations of the way public and peoples’ health is. Hexgrids. In the winter of 2003/4, I started this ambitious plan with my use of hexagon grid modeling, as a...
The biological and behavioral processes underlying the current improvement in health status are complex, with long-gestating lags linking the growth of the fetus and early childhood biological development, all the way to late life mortality, disability, and health status, as well as impacting ...
The environmental matter is a hot topic nowadays. Not only does it affect our health, it also has a great impact on our future. Due to lacking of environmental concepts, peoples health has been greatly affected by air, noise and water pollution. In order to live a better life, we need ...