Overview: The Accelerating Movement of Partnerships for Health

2019 ◽  
pp. 3-6
Author(s):  
J. Lloyd Michener ◽  
Brian C. Castrucci ◽  
Don W. Bradley ◽  
Edward L. Hunter ◽  
Craig W. Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
United States ◽  
Primary Care ◽  
Population Health ◽  
The United States ◽  
Improve Population Health ◽  
Second Development ◽  
Working Together ◽  
General Desire

Chapter 1 provides an introduction to the history and background to a general desire to try to find ways to improve population health through primary care and public health. The first Practical Playbook derived from an internet-based initiative that sought to find, assemble, assess, and share stories of how communities and agencies across the United States were working together to improve health. This text is the second development from that, after the realization that a completely new text was needed that would build on the experiences of the broadening array of sites and sectors and provide a concise set of tools, methods, and examples that support multi-sector partnerships to improve population health. The chapter then outlines the coverage of the rest of the chapters.

scholarly journals Dual MD–MPH Degree Students in the United States: Moving the Medical Workforce Toward Population Health

2021 ◽  
pp. 003335492097842
Author(s):  
Jo Marie Reilly ◽  
Christine M. Plepys ◽  
Michael R. Cousineau
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
United States ◽  
Population Health ◽  
Health Care Policy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Extensive Literature ◽  
Master Of Public Health ◽  
Telephone Interviews ◽  
Public Health Training ◽  
The Impact

Objective A growing need exists to train physicians in population health to meet the increasing need and demand for physicians with leadership, health data management/metrics, and epidemiology skills to better serve the health of the community. This study examines current trends in students pursuing a dual doctor of medicine (MD)–master of public health (MPH) degree (MD–MPH) in the United States. Methods We conducted an extensive literature review of existing MD–MPH databases to determine characteristics (eg, sex, race/ethnicity, MPH area of study) of this student cohort in 2019. We examined a trend in the MD community to pursue an MPH career, adding additional public health and health care policy training to the MD workforce. We conducted targeted telephone interviews with 20 admissions personnel and faculty at schools offering MD–MPH degrees in the United States with the highest number of matriculants and graduates. Interviews focused on curricula trends in medical schools that offer an MD–MPH degree. Results No literature describes the US MD–MPH cohort, and available MD–MPH databases are limited and incomplete. We found a 434% increase in the number of students pursuing an MD–MPH degree from 2010 to 2018. The rate of growth was greater than the increase in either the number of medical students (16%) or the number of MPH students (65%) alone. Moreover, MD–MPH students as a percentage of total MPH students more than tripled, from 1.1% in 2010 to 3.6% in 2018. Conclusions As more MD students pursue public health training, the impact of an MPH degree on medical school curricula, MD–MPH graduates, and MD–MPH career pursuits should be studied using accurate and comprehensive databases.

Public health nurses’ workforce factors and population health outcomes in the United States

2020 ◽  
Vol 37 (6) ◽  
pp. 829-836
Author(s):  
Seok Hyun Gwon ◽  
Young Ik Cho ◽  
Soonhwa Paek ◽  
Weiming Ke
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
United States ◽  
Health Outcomes ◽  
Population Health ◽  
The United States ◽  
Public Health Nurses

scholarly journals Strengthening Integrated Care Through Population-Focused Primary Care Services: International Experiences Outside the United States

2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 413-429 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rene Loewenson ◽  
Sarah Simpson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Primary Care ◽  
Population Health ◽  
The United States ◽  
Learning Networks ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Primary Care Services ◽  
Community Roles ◽  
A Site

Many high- and middle-income countries (HMICs) are experiencing a burden of comorbidity and chronic diseases. Together with increasing patient expectations, this burden is raising demand for population health–oriented innovation in health care. Using desk review and country case studies, we examine strategies applied in HMICs outside the United States to address these challenges, with a focus on and use of a new framework for analyzing primary care (PC). The article outlines how a population health approach has been supported by focusing assessment on and clustering services around social groups and multimorbidity, with support for community roles. It presents ways in which early first contact and continuity of PC, PC coordination of referral, multidisciplinary team approaches, investment in PC competencies, and specific payment and incentive models have all supported comprehensive approaches. These experiences locate PC as a site of innovation, where information technology and peer-to-peer learning networks support learning from practice.

Voices of the Next Generation

2019 ◽  
pp. 491-506
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Corcoran ◽  
Sarah LaFave ◽  
Denny Fe Garcia Agana ◽  
Haleigh Kampman ◽  
John C. Penner ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
United States ◽  
Food Insecurity ◽  
Population Health ◽  
Interdisciplinary Collaboration ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Third ◽  
Care For The Elderly

This chapter presents a number of personal perspectives on experiences and thoughts on collaborative population health projects that have taken place. It presents a number of essays that look at slightly different aspects of the topic. The first essay focuses on the team of professionals who are involved in such projects. The second essay looks at care for the elderly. The third essay gives a very personal account of hopes to make a difference in population health. The next essay looks at employment and public health. The fifth essay is about food insecurity. The essay that follows looks at the role of the pharmacist. The seventh essay considers interdisciplinary collaboration for improving health in the United States.

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