Driving Health Care Transformation in Communities Across America 2012
August 1, 2012 | Issue Brief
16 communities. 37 million people. One goal.
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Developing a Community Scorecard to Chronicle Public Health Disparities in South Los Angeles
January 4, 2011 | Report
Knowledge Asset: The South LA Health Equity Scorecard examines the health of South Los Angeles residents in the context of the social and economic policies that contribute to inequitable resource levels.
County Health Rankings
February 10, 2010 | Report/Video
University of Wisconsin/RWJF project ranks counties on how healthy people are and how long they live.
Challenges and Opportunities for Population Health Partnerships
November 1, 2010 | Journal Article
This article describes areas of challenge for creating successful partnerships and opportunities for further exploration.
Multisectoral Lessons from Healthy Communities
November 1, 2010 | Journal Article
The healthy communities movement can provide insight into population health efforts in the United States, particularly in the context of recent health care reform.
Special Journal Issue of Preventing Chronic Disease Focuses on Community Partnerships to Improve Population Health
October 18, 2010 | Journal Article
A set of special essays in the November issue of Preventing Chronic Disease, a journal published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), presents a set of essays about partnerships toward improving community health.
Challenges of Capacity Building in Multisector Community Health Alliances
October 1, 2010 | Journal Article
This article examines challenges to the success of health alliances between insurers, providers, hospitals and patients. While health alliances hold potential to improve health care for chronic conditions, health alliances struggle to achieve meaningful change in a short period of time.
The Community Tool Box
June 20, 2011 | Program Result
The free web-based Community Tool Box is designed to promote community health and development by connecting people, ideas and resources. It is available in English and Spanish.
Observations on Incentives to Improve Population Health
September 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Articles in this issue of Preventing Chronic Disease provide a number of perspectives relating to how incentives might work for population health improvement.
Measuring the Health of Communities
September 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Challenges to measuring population health exist, but as these authors note, attempting to measure the overall health of populations allows public health leaders to better allocate resources to areas of greatest need.