Population health management refers to the steps healthcare organizations take to improve the health outcomes of a defined group of individuals. They may focus on a specific hospital’s patient population, a geographic area, a specific disease or some other unifying characteristic. This patient- and...
Population health management (PHM) is a discipline within the healthcare industry that studies and facilitates care delivery across the general population or a group of individuals. An important goal of PHM is to gather, normalize and analyze clinical data across a patient's many care settings tha...
Results showed convergence on five major population health themes. Study findings provide a practitioner-informed definition for population health and validated recommendations for health management curriculum content via a population health perspective. The identification of key topic areas serves to inform ...
healthcare. Population health management is emerging as a method to support value-based healthcare by aggregating patient information, providing data analysis, and contributing to clinical decision support. Key issues to consider with a laboratory-developed population health management model are discussed,...
As much as one-third of the population is expected to experience the current definition of a 1-in-100-year storm as often as three times in their lifetime. Additionally, the current precipitation standards for designing transportation infrastructure and urban stormwater drainage systems that are ...
The profound changes in work and management cultures that are required to integrate gender issues into national health systems will need commitment from managers at the most senior levels and the assignment of sufficient resources. Only with adequate funding can the building blocks of new gender-sensi...
Management regimes that address the ultimate causes of disease outbreaks have the greatest potential for removing disease threats but are also the most difficult to implement. Indeed, the ultimate causes of marine invertebrate diseases, namely, pollution and ocean temperature changes, are so global and...
The transition to farming brought on a series of important changes in human society, lifestyle, diet and health. The human bioarchaeology of the agricultural transition has received much attention, however, relatively few studies have directly tested the
A McKinsey Health Institute survey across 21 countries reported consensus amongst older adults aged 55 years and above on the importance of life purpose, stress management, meaningful connections, and independence for overall health [12]. In Hevolution’s global survey of 4000 members of the public...
In recent years, increased attention has been given to designing combined interventions, targeting both PIA and SB, to appropriately prevent and contribute to the management of NCDs for better health and well-being outcomes [13]. These interventions need to involve behavioral changes and to be info...