Population/Community Health
On this AHA Advancing Health podcast, Germaine Smith-Baugh, president and CEO of the Urban League of Broward County in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., talks about combating the COVID-19 pandemic through testing, vaccinations and education within the community, which include people hardest hit by the pandemic…
Precision medicine and population health may seem like contradictory concepts.
Information and resources to help hospitals and health systems use community investment, also called place-based investment, to address housing insecurity and other social determinants of health in their communities.
Health care systems must partner in effective community-based approaches in caring for populations, write three leaders from Providence.
Health care systems must partner in effective community-based approaches in caring for populations, write three leaders from Providence. Using
evidence from more than four decades of place-based investments, the authors write that comprehensive, multi-dimensional community investment strategies…
Place-based investment, otherwise known as community investment, helps create the social and physical environments that support community health over the long term. As communities recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, community investment will be an innovative yet useful strategy for reimagining and…
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center’s Geriatric Fracture Program prioritizes the care needs of patients age 65 and over who are admitted to the hospital with bone fractures.
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Even as we continue to address COVD-19 challenges, let’s consider the experiences of the past year, looking for lessons learned and opportunities for the future. Here are four major areas that changed during the pandemic and are likely to keep transforming health care in the year ahead.