RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Accountable Communities for Health: Moving From Providing Accountable Care to Creating Health
JF The Annals of Family Medicine
JO Ann Fam Med
FD American Academy of Family Physicians
SP 367
OP 369
DO 10.1370/afm.1813
VO 13
IS 4
A1 Tipirneni, Renuka
A1 Vickery, Katherine Diaz
A1 Ehlinger, Edward P.
YR 2015
UL http://www.annfammed.org/content/13/4/367.abstract
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.