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Transparency in Health Care Pricing
May 8, 2013 | Feature
Newly released federal data shows pricing for common inpatient procedures varies greatly, and allows consumers to see how hospital charges in their area compare nationally and regionally for the same procedure.
Measuring Population Health Outcomes
July 1, 2012 | Journal Article
An ideal population health outcome metric should reflect a population's dynamic state of physical, mental and social well-being. On the basis of a review of outcomes metrics currently in use and the availability of data for at least some U.S. counties, this study makes recommendations for population health outcomes.
Focusing on Solid Partnerships Across Multiple Sectors for Population Health Improvement
November 1, 2010 | Journal Article
The Mobilizing Action Toward Community Health (MATCH) articles in this issue of Preventing Chronic
Building Multisectoral Partnerships for Population Health and Health Equity
November 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Poor performance in achieving population health goals is well-noted—approximately 10 percent of public health measures tracked are met. Less well-understood is how to create conditions that produce these goals.
Networks as a Type of Social Entrepreneurship to Advance Population Health
November 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Leaders in public health can use networks to overcome some of the barriers that inhibit the widespread adoption of a population health approach to community health.
Improving Population Health
November 1, 2010 | Journal Article
This article describes a long-term approach to population health, including incentives,and identify what is needed to engage business leadership in population health improvement.
Multisector Partnerships in Population Health Improvement
October 15, 2010 | Journal Article
Many new initiatives for population health improvement feature partnerships of leaders and organizations
Learning from the European Experience of Using Targets to Improve Population Health
September 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Health targets have become a widely used instrument to promote population health. The authors of this study describe the experience in England, where the use of targets has reached the most advanced stage of development, and other European countries.
Paying for Performance in Population Health
September 1, 2010 | Journal Article
What lessons can be learned from the successes and failures of pay-for-performance in health care settings that apply to pay-for-performance in population health?
Principles to Guide the Development of Population Health Incentives
September 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Evidence for the beneficial effects of incentive programs has been slow to emerge, partly because such evidence must show how behaviors have changed because of the incentive.
Understanding the Production of Population Health and the Role of Paying for Population Health
September 1, 2010 | Journal Article
This article considers two related themes that address population health outcomes and the contributions to those outcomes by time, place, individual behaviors and choices, and activities of various social sectors.