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| The health outcomes of a group of individuals, including the distribution of such outcomes within the group |
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Biology
Behaviors
Social environment
Physical environment
Policies and interventions
Access to quality health care |
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| What we do as a society collectively to assure conditions in which people can be healthy |
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| MAIN FUNCTIONS OF PUBLIC HEALTH |
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Promotion of sanitation
Control of communicable disease
Regulation of food and water
Operation of state laboratories
Health education
Maintenance of vital statistics
Limited medical care delivery |
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| The study of how disease is distributed in populations and the factors that influence or determine this distribution |
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“State of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.”
--World Health Organization (WHO), 1948 |
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| A socially defined concept referring to a health state that deviates from what is considered normal in a given community |
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| A pathological process that impairs bodily function |
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| Preventing the initial development of a disease (Immunization, Reducing exposure to risk factor) |
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| Early detection of existing disease to reduce severity and complications (health screenings) |
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| Reducing the impact of the disease (rehabilitation for stroke) |
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| Implemented handwashing and lowered rates of childbed fever (1846) |
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| Edward Jenner (1796) & Dr. DA Henderson (1967) |
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| Mapped the cholera outbreak in 1854, removed the water pump handle and controlled the outbreak |
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| WHY DO WE NEED POPULATION HEALTH? |
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Changing Demographics
Rise of Chronic Disease and Disability
Fragmentation
Financing and Accreditation |
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| WHAT IS THE IRONY TO THE RISE IN CHRONIC CONDITIONS? |
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| The health care system is still largely designed to treat acute illness |
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| POPULATION HEALTH MANAGEMENT |
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| A variety of approaches developed to foster health and quality of care improvements while managing costs for a defined population |
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| POPULATION HEALTH MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES (6) |
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Lifestyle management
Demand management
Disease management
Catastrophic care management
Disability management
Integrated population health management |
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| What is to be managed in population health management? |
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Health of a defined population
Objective to maximize its health |
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| Who is to be managed in population health management? |
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A defined population
Populations can be defined in many different ways
Individuals may be members of different population groups |
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| Where can population health management happen? |
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Federal, state, local levels
Employer-level
Health plan-level |
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| Why does population health need to be managed? |
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Finite healthcare resources
Address access, cost, and quality issues |
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