The integration of clinical care and population health is a priority for health planners,
researchers, and practitioners. Health care systems are judged against the Triple Aim …

POPULATION HEALTH, DEfiNED BROADLY AS THE DISTRIBUTION of health-related risks
and outcomes within and across populations, has been developing as a subject of scientific …

A call for US primary care providers (PCPs) to engage in population health is coming from a
variety of quarters. An Institute of Medicine report 1 expounds the need for the integration of …

A s family physicians we are trained to approach every patient in the context of family, and
every family in the context of community. Working to improve the health of communities we …

IN A BURGEONING era of accountability through outcomes, the provision of preventive and
primary care services is taking on an epidemiologic twist. Rather than focusing only on …

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Enhanced focus on population health is increasingly invoked as a potential solution to the
persistent problems facing the US health care system including failures to achieve targets for …

Cost pressures are driving the reorganization of the health care delivery system in the
United States, causing health care delivery organizations to become larger and more …

Optimizing the health of populations, whether defined as persons receiving care from a
health care delivery system or more broadly as persons in a region, is emerging as a core …

Yet, to date, our society has not yet optimally aligned the individual and community forces
that can best foster health for all. For too long, fragmentation has ruled the day. In particular …