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Public Health and Medicine

WEBPublic health and medicine approach the challenge of health and health care from distinct, complementary perspectives (Table 1). In medicine, the focus is on the individual …

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What is Population Health and What Should It Do

WEBConcepts of population health have been spreading like wildfire in the health sciences, but what do they mean? Population health is a broad, collaborative movement to update …

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County Health Rankings

WEBThe County Health Rankings (CHR) provides data for nearly every county in the U.S. on four modifiable groups of health factors, including healthy behaviors, clinical …

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The Foundational Public Health Services as a Framework …

WEBIn support of the nation’s effort to address rising healthcare costs and improve healthcare outcomes, the National Academy of Medicine called for a minimum …

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The Meaning of Population Health: Whose Population Is …

WEBThe term population health has been used increasingly in reference to efforts to improve the performance and outcomes of healthcare systems.1 With related terms such as …

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Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

WEBAs a discipline, preventive medicine has traditionally been described to encompass primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention. The fields of preventive medicine and public health …

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Building a Culture of Health

WEBHealth and health care have reached a pivotal point in the U.S. For generations, Americans’ health has been unequally influenced by income, education, ethnicity, and …

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Systems Thinking to Improve the Public's Health

WEBImproving population health requires understanding and changing societal structures and functions, but countervailing forces sometimes undermine those changes, thus reflecting …

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Defining Health in a Comprehensive Context: A New …

WEBDespite investments in health care, good health remains elusive for many people. Healthcare systems generally are disease-focused and concentrate resources …

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Human Flourishing: A New Concept for Preventive Medicine

WEBThe human flourishing concept suggests a more inclusive and socially responsive vision of disease prevention and health promotion emphasizing combined …

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Characteristics of Population Health Physicians and the Needs of

WEBHealthcare organizations are transitioning from fee-for-service, volume-based care toward value-based care and the Triple Aim. Physicians have critical roles as leaders and …

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Social and Economic Differences in Neighborhood Walkability …

WEBNeighborhood walkability has been established as a potentially important determinant of various health outcomes that are distributed inequitably by race/ethnicity …

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Worksite Health Promotion

WEBEmployers have arrived at a wondrous intersection of science and practice. The long-awaited literature review of worksite health promotion programs conducted by the Task …

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Trends in Cardiovascular Disease Mortality Rates and Excess …

WEBCardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality increased during the initial years of the COVID-19 pandemic, but whether these trends endured in 2022 is unknown. This …

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The Cognitive Burden of Poverty: A Mechanism of Socioeconomic …

WEBLiving in poverty is strongly linked to poor health and premature death, a reality that manifests in a roughly 10-year difference in lifespan between those at the top …

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A Role for Government

WEBThe role of government in health care has expanded over the years and influenced political discourse and policy. Whether this is an appropriate role has been contested. Still, the …

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The Role of U.S. Public Health Agencies in Addressing Long COVID

WEBLong COVID (or post-COVID conditions) refers to symptoms or health conditions that persist or occur ≥4 weeks after severe acute respiratory syndrome …

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Response to a Large HIV Outbreak, Cabell County, West Virginia, …

WEBIn January 2019, the West Virginia Bureau for Public Health detected increased HIV diagnoses among people who inject drugs in Cabell County. Responding to HIV clusters …

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African American Men's Health: Research, Practice, and Policy

WEBThe Center for Healthy African American Men through Partnerships (CHAAMPS, U54MD008620), led by investigators at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and …

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An Introduction to Quality Assurance in Health Care

WEBAvedis Donabedian. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2003. 240 pp., $37.95, hardcover. ISBN 0-19-515809-1. A n Introduction to Quality Assurance in Health Care, …

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