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The workshop explored models for population health improvement by health care systems and their partners--from public health departments to social service agencies and others. Panels explored how leadership and organizational structure can support addressing health-related social needs and advance health equity, and how partnering organizations can facilitate transforming environments through policy change.
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·2022
The Roundtable on Population Health Improvement of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine hosted a public workshop on September 19, 2019 titled Models for Population Health Improvement by Health Care Systems and Partners: Tensions and Promise on the Path Upstream. The term ups...
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Description
An ad hoc planning committee will organize and convene a one-day public workshop to discuss the growing attention from health care delivery and health insurance organizations to the social determinants of health. Trends and examples regarding health system engagement in population health ranging from individual-level patient management efforts that focus on individual-level patient social needs and “medicalize” population health to more community-level interventions will be explored and discussed. The workshop will also present examples of innovative health system efforts that are focused on upstream (meso and macro) level factors, and will discuss the challenges and benefits of promoting upstream (i.e., population-level, systems and policy-focused) approaches to population health and health equity, including the community-level infrastructure needed to support more upstream efforts. A proceedings of the presentations and discussions at the workshop will be prepared by designated rapporteurs in accordance with institutional guidelines.
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Department of Health and Human Services
Private: For Profit
Private: Non Profit
Staff
Alina Baciu
Lead