Ohio Statewide Efforts to Align Public Health/Health Care Population Health Planning

The existence of adequate and reliable information to assess population health is essential to build solid strategies for public health promotion and social care, as to help demonstrate efficient investment in these areas. There are several health-related databases, covering different scales: World, Europe, or National, including several datasets with different details. These different datasets should be reviewed and selected on the basis of their ability to support efficient strategies associated with monitoring population health and their usefulness in the promotion of health care efficiency. To understand the relevance of these database infrastructures when integrated with Web-based, geographical information management tools, and use these to improve the knowledge of health issues, this chapter integrates examples related to enhancing the performance analysis of this collaborative spatial data infrastructure in three distinct areas: national health systems and health care; disease prevalence studies in different countries, and integrated analysis of environment quality and public health.

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Population health planning for health equity

Australian Journal of Primary Health ◽

10.1071/py11044 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 17 (4) ◽

pp. 327 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Helen Keleher

Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Population Health ◽

Health Equity ◽

Health Planning ◽

Determinants Of Health ◽

Data Sources ◽

Health Plans ◽

Health Care Planning ◽

Population Planning ◽

Sound Foundation

Australia’s health reform documents make reference to the need to address health equity and strengthen population health planning. They make a stronger case about the need to address equity than policy documents that have preceded them. However, they do not make clear that health care is one of many determinants of health and equity, and that planning for health care, social care and social health outcomes are necessary for effectiveness. In other words, population health planning is much more than health care planning. Population health plans vary in their intent and design, depending on the population catchment for the plan, the remit of the organisations involved and the paradigms from which the plan is written. A stronger vision is necessary if population health plans are to affect health inequities. Comprehensive population planning is necessarily intersectoral with engagement across a wide cross-section of government department policies, portfolios and data sources, with a focus on the determinants of health and inequity, and a sound foundation of social values. This paper unpacks the elements of population health planning, the data sources that may be used and their interrogation in terms of the determinants of health, and presents core principles that distinguish population health planning from other types of planning to ensure that planning is comprehensive and able to be actioned.

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Implementing COVID-19 Surveillance Through Inter-Organizational Coordination: A Qualitative Study of Three Cities in Colombia

Health Policy and Planning ◽

10.1093/heapol/czab145 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Simon Turner ◽

Carolina Segura ◽

Natalia Niño

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Health Care ◽

Health Services ◽

Disease Surveillance ◽

Service Providers ◽

Health Planning ◽

Insurance Companies ◽

Health Providers ◽

Structured Interviews ◽

Coordination Strategies

Abstract Introducing comprehensive surveillance is recommended as an urgent public health measure to control and mitigate the spread of COVID-19 worldwide. However, its implementation has proven challenging as it requires inter-organizational coordination among multiple health care stakeholders. The purpose of this study was to examine the role of soft and hard mechanisms in the implementation of inter-organizational coordination strategies for COVID-19 surveillance within Colombia, drawing on evidence from the cities of Bogotá, Cali and Cartagena. The study used a case study approach to understand the perspectives of local and national authorities, insurance companies and health providers in the implementation of inter-organizational coordination strategies for COVID-19 surveillance. 81 semi-structured interviews were conducted between June and November 2020. The data was analysed by codes and categorized using New NVivo software. The study identified inter-organizational coordination strategies that were implemented to provide COVID-19 surveillance in the three cities. Both soft (e.g. trust and shared purpose) and hard mechanisms (e.g. formal agreements and regulations) acted as mediators for collaboration and helped to address existing structural barriers in the provision of health services. The findings suggest that soft and hard mechanisms contributed to promoting change among health care system stakeholders and improved inter-organizational coordination for disease surveillance. The findings contribute to evidence regarding practices to improve coordinated surveillance of disease, including the roles of new forms of financing and contracting between insurers and public and private health service providers, logistics regarding early diagnosis in infectious disease, and the provision of health services at the community level regardless of insurance affiliation. Our research provides evidence to improve disease surveillance frameworks in fragmented health systems contributing to public health planning and health system improvement.

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Evaluating the Process and Outcomes of a Knowledge Translation Approach to Supporting Use of the Diabetes Population Risk Tool (DPoRT) in Public Health Practice

Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation ◽

10.3138/cjpe.31160 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 33 (1) ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Laura C Rosella ◽

Catherine Bornbaum ◽

Kathy Kornas ◽

Michael Lebenbaum ◽

Leslea Peirson ◽

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Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Population Health ◽

Health Planning ◽

Public Health Practice ◽

Specific Data ◽

Knowledge To Action ◽

Action Model ◽

Health Related ◽

Evaluation Matrix ◽

Planning Knowledge

Abstract: To support the use of the Diabetes Population Risk Tool (DPoRT) in public health settings, a knowledge brokering (KB) team used and evaluated the Population Health Planning Knowledge-to-Action model. Participants (n = 24) were from four health-related organizations. Data sources included document reviews, surveys, fo-cus groups, interviews, and observational notes. Site-specific data were analyzed and then triangulated across sites using an evaluation matrix. The KB team facilitated DPoRT use through planned and iterative strategies. Outcomes included changes in skill, knowledge, and organizational practices. The Population Health Planning Knowledge-to-Action model and team-based KB strategy supported DPoRT use in public health settings.Résumé: Pour appuyer l’utilisation de l’outil Diabetes Population Risk Tool (DPoRT) dans les milieux de santé publique, une équipe de courtage de connaissances (KB) a utilisé et évalué le modèle Population Health Planning Knowledge-to-Action. Les sources de données comprenaient des documents, des sondages, des groupes de dis-cussion, des entrevues et des notes d’observation. L’équipe de KB a facilité l’utilisation de DPoRT. Les résultats comprenaient les changements dans les compétences, les connaissances et les pratiques organisationnelles. Le modèle Population Health Planning Knowledge-to-Action et la stratégie KB basée sur l’équipe ont appuyé l’utilisation de DPoRT.

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Population health care

Practising Public Health ◽

10.1093/oso/9780198743170.003.0006 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 142-174

Author(s):

John Ashton

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Health Care ◽

Health Service ◽

Health Services ◽

Population Health ◽

Public Health Approach ◽

University Hospitals ◽

Planned Parenthood ◽

Mainstream Media ◽

Alder Hey

This chapter addresses the value of health services as a public health measure and makes the case for the use of public health skills in health service planning. The question as to what sort of health services are most appropriate to optimize population health is explored with reference to the development of the World Health Organization Alma Ata Declaration with its emphasis on the eight elements of primary health care. The application of epidemiological thinking in National Health Service frameworks for health care is described. Examples of the use of a public health approach in health care planning include: planned parenthood and family planning services; population-based diabetic retinopathy screening; and whole-system health care transformation in the county of Cumbria. Also covered are the proactive role of the mainstream media in taking the public on a journey of change and the handling of serious clinical service failure in the form of inappropriate organ retention at the Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, breast screening failure in a Cumbrian hospital, and a corporate clinical disaster at the Morecambe Bay University Hospitals.

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Introduction

Saving People from the Harm of Death ◽

10.1093/oso/9780190921415.003.0001 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 1-18

Author(s):

Espen Gamlund ◽

Carl Tollef Solberg

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Health Care ◽

Health Policy ◽

Population Health ◽

Philosophical Literature ◽

Health Care Resources ◽

Mortality And Morbidity ◽

The One

There have been debates in both philosophy and the field of population health on the issue of how mortality can and should be measured. In population health, the intention has been to produce measures of public health that can guide the formulation of policies governing the distribution of health care resources. However, there are many questions concerned with the evaluation of death that have not been carefully addressed in the literature on population health but that have been extensively discussed in the philosophical literature on death. Conversely, there are debates in population health about whether and how to summarize mortality and morbidity that have largely escaped the attention of philosophers. The purpose of this book is to bring these two general debates—the one in philosophy and the one in population health—into dialogue with one another, with the aim of evaluating deaths and examining the relevance of such evaluation to health policy.

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