Quiz 1 Flashcards
What are the major issues we are currently facing in healthcare?
- payment/affordability
- accessibility
- HC provider shortages
- burnout
- miscommunication
- misinformation
- quality of HC
What is population health?
Broad: why are some people healthy and others not?
Detailed: health outcomes of a GROUP of individuals, including the DISTRIBUTION of such outcomes within the group
- analyze patterns of determinants
- outcomes & quality
- form direct policy and research agendas
Who has responsibility for health improvement?
no one in the public or private sector currently has responsibility for overall health improvement
- goals need to be set
- outcomes need to be measured
- quality needs to be assessed
Overall health could be quite high if the majority of the population is relatively healthy – even though a minority of the population is much less healthy
Overall health could be quite high if the majority of the population is relatively healthy – even though a minority of the population is much less healthy
Examples of Patients in a Population Health
urban vs rural
age
race
levels of health literacy
employees