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July 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Increasing research and policy attention is being given to how the socioeconomic environment influences health. This article discusses potential indicators or metrics regarding the socioeconomic environment that could play a role in an incentive-based system for population health.
July 1, 2010 | Journal Article
The essays in this issue of Preventing Chronic Disease, solicited on behalf of the MATCH project, describe the characteristics of metrics and provide advice, support, and caution regarding their selection.
July 1, 2010 | Journal Article
As policy-makers consider strategies to promote improvements in population health, measurement may provide powerful incentives for change, but selecting reliable and valid health metrics that can be tracked consistently across communities is challenging.
July 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Efforts to improve public health require information on the prevalence of health behaviors in populations—not only to target programs to areas of most need but also to evaluate the effectiveness of intervention efforts.
July 1, 2010 | Journal Article
A system that rewards population health must be able to measure and track health inequalities.
April 18, 2011 | Program Result Report
The 2005 and 2007 California Health Interview Surveys incorporated questions on children's and adolescents' diet and physical activity as well as the environmental factors that influence those behaviors.
June 15, 2010 | Audio/Journal Article
Researchers evaluate health metrics.
June 15, 2010 | Journal Article
Effective health policies and allocation of public health resources can substantially improve public health. In this study, the authors review articles published in 2008 surrounding measurement issues for public health policy and present a set of recommendations for future emphasis.
June 15, 2010 | Journal Article
How are we doing — and how can we do better? These are perhaps the most basic questions a community can ask regarding the health of its residents. In this issue of Preventing Chronic Disease, seven essays describe the types of tools needed to measure and monitor our population's health.
June 1, 2010 | Commentary
Now that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has become law, the question is whether the country is ready to implement its provisions, especially regarding quality. Commentary from Risa Lavizzo-Mourey.