Population Health, Outcomes Research, and Prevention

Population health, outcomes research, and prevention: example of the American Heart Association 2020 goals.

In September 2008, Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes was launched to “improve clinical decision making, population health and healthcare policy.”1 This statement affirmed unambiguously that health and clinical care, medicine, and policy were tightly interwoven. Three years later, during times marked by unprecedented healthcare challenges and a global epidemic of obesity and diabe...

Measuring Population Health Outcomes

An ideal population health outcome metric should reflect a population's dynamic state of physical, mental, and social well-being. Positive health outcomes include being alive; functioning well mentally, physically, and socially; and having a sense of well-being. Negative outcomes include death, loss of function, and lack of well-being. In contrast to these health outcomes, diseases and injuries...

Measuring Population Health Outcomes

An ideal population health outcome metric should reflect a population’s dynamic state of physical, mental, and social well-being. Positive health outcomes include being alive; functioning well mentally, physically, and socially; and having a sense of well-being. Negative outcomes include death, loss of function, and lack of well-being. In contrast to these health outcomes, diseases and injuries...

Health Outcomes Research: a Primer

Health policy and outcomes research 2004.

Health policy research and its kin, outcomes research, are primarily aimed at informing policy decision-makers. Although we know of no clear line separating these 2 types of research, an apparent convention is to term research performed specifically for policy decisions and typically reported in nonacademic publications as “health policy research,”1 whereas outcomes research is the more academi...