Can Academic Population Health Departments Improve Population Health?

Judging nudging: can nudging improve population health?

Academic Health Systems' Third Curve: Population Health Improvement.

Spurred by a rapidly changing health care landscape, many academic health systems are reconfiguring to move

Using Metrics to Improve Population Health

A logic model with theoretical, philosophical, or political grounding is an essential first step. A model conceptualizes the production of population health, and metrics are chosen on the basis of that conceptualization. To achieve population health, for example, should we seek improvements in access to care, in medical or disease conditions, or in the social, political, and economic underpinni...

Will Precision Medicine Improve Population Health?

Announcementof theprecisionmedicine initiativehas led to a variety of responses, ranging from enthusiastic expectations1 to explicit skepticism,2 about potential health benefits, limitations, and return on investment. ThisViewpointdiscusseswhetherprecisionmedicine is unlikely or likely to improve population health, aiming to forge a consensus that bridges disparate perspectives on the issue. Th...

Observations on Incentives to Improve Population Health

The pace of progress in population health can be influenced by the incentives in play and the metrics that trigger them. The MATCH (Mobilizing Action Toward Community Health) articles in this issue of Preventing Chronic Disease explore the use of incentives to improve population health and hold implications for the development and application of the measures to which they are linked. Metrics in...