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Measuring Population Health and its Determinants: A Workshop

Completed

The one-day workshop, held in Oakland, California

(1) explored existing and emerging population health metrics sets, along with their purposes, areas of overlap and gaps

(2) highlighted population health metrics with attention to equity/disparities

(3) discussed characteristics of metrics necessary for stakeholder action (across multiple sectors whose engagement is needed to transform the conditions for health in communities); and

(4) highlighted population health metrics useful to addressing health beyond health care and engaging “total population health” (again, across multiple sectors)

Meeting

Metrics that Matter for Population Health Action: A Workshop

  • July 30, 2015
  • 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM (ET)
  • Meeting
  • Past

This one-day workshop explored the status and uses of measures and measurement in the work of improving population health. Special attention was given to population health metrics that illuminate equi...

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