The healthy communities movement can provide insight into population health efforts in the United States, particularly in the context of recent health care reform.

The movement has evolved from multisector partnerships that focused on improving the health, well-being, and quality of life for people and the social determinants of health to partnerships that focus more on chronic disease prevention, health equity and environmental change. Evaluating the effects of community programs on population health has been challenging for a number of reasons. More metrics need to be developed for population health that will address inequities and focus policies on long-term health effects.

This article is part of a special supplement of Preventing Chronic Disease: Public Health Research, Practice, and Policy.

Special Journal Issue of Preventing Chronic Disease Focuses on Community Partnerships to Improve Population Health

  1. 1. Challenges and Opportunities for Population Health Partnerships
  2. 2. Improving Public Health System Performance Through Multiorganizational Partnerships
  3. 3. Focusing on Solid Partnerships Across Multiple Sectors for Population Health Improvement
  4. 4. Multisectoral Lessons from Healthy Communities
  5. 5. Building Multisectoral Partnerships for Population Health and Health Equity
  6. 6. Multisector Partnerships in Population Health Improvement
  7. 7. Networks as a Type of Social Entrepreneurship to Advance Population Health
  8. 8. Improving Population Health
  9. 9. Designing Vermont's Pay-for-Population Health System
  10. 10. Observations and Recommendations from the Mobilizing Action Toward Community Health (MATCH) Expert Meeting

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