Magazine & Journal Articles
American Hospital Association magazine and journal articles.
This article addresses health care innovations that can help improve population and meet future health system demands in the United States and internationally.
Reducing rates of rehospitalization has attracted attention from policymakers as a way to improve quality of care and reduce costs. However, we have limited information on the frequency and patterns of rehospitalization in the United States to aid in planning the necessary changes. The article…
This article discusses the role of information technology to achieve population health goals.
This article argues that policy actions must focus on income security, education, housing, food security and the environment to improve population health.
This article discusses strategies to maximize improvement in overall population health and suggests necessity to eliminate health disparities.
This article proposes a definition of population health and differentiates the concept from public health, health promotion and social epidemiology.
This article traces the historical progression of the population health approach as part of health care delivery. The authors show how economic, medical and epidemiological trends have affected population health over the past two centuries.
This article discusses definitions of population health and how various models of can operationalize population health priniciples in diverse situations.