PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Tipirneni, Renuka
AU  - Vickery, Katherine Diaz
AU  - Ehlinger, Edward P.
TI  - Accountable Communities for Health: Moving From Providing Accountable Care to Creating Health
AID  - 10.1370/afm.1813
DP  - 2015 Jul 01
TA  - The Annals of Family Medicine
PG  - 367--369
VI  - 13
IP  - 4
4099  - http://www.annfammed.org/content/13/4/367.short
4100  - http://www.annfammed.org/content/13/4/367.full
SO  - Ann Fam Med2015 Jul 01; 13
AB  - Lessons from community-oriented primary care in the United States can offer insights into how we could improve population health by integrating the public health, social service, and health care sectors to form accountable communities for health (ACHs). Unlike traditional accountable care organizations (ACOs) that address population health from a health care perspective, ACHs address health from a community perspective and consider the total investment in health across all sectors. The approach embeds the ACO in a community context where multiple stakeholders come together to share responsibility for tackling multiple determinants of health. ACOs using the ACH model provide a roadmap for embedding health care in communities in a way that uniquely addresses local social determinants of health.