Discussion Paper
by Jenna Ogilvie | Apr 10, 2014 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
In Los Angeles County, California, a promising new model for violence prevention and health promotion, rooted in cross-sector collaboration, has implications for how public health agencies serve communities. Safe Summer Parks programs were developed as violence...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Mar 11, 2014 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
In a presentation to the Institute of Medicine Roundtable on Population Health Improvement, Nancy O. Andrews, President and CEO of the Low Income Investment Fund (LIIF), talked about the concept of quarterbacks for healthy communities, which was introduced in...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Mar 6, 2014 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
The key to the long term survival of the health care reforms being implemented under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has little to do with the enrollment websites that have attracted so much attention and everything to do with transforming the performance of the...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Mar 6, 2014 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) and co-occurring state health reform initiatives are fueling a new wave of deliberation and experimentation with population health strategies (IOM, 2013a). Although lacking a precise definition, these strategies aim to improve...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Feb 6, 2014 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
Texas’s health will more likely be transformed through an obscure set of health care reform measures called the Medicaid 1115 Waiver/Texas Healthcare Transformation and Quality Improvement Program than through the much-publicized Affordable Care Act (ACA). The...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Jan 28, 2014 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
Introduction The demographic makeup of the United States is rapidly changing, and these trends will continue to reshape the nation in the coming decades. The aging and evolving racial and ethnic composition of the U.S. population has placed the nation in the...
by Laura DeStefano | Jan 28, 2014 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
Overview As mobile devices become more pervasive, mobile health (mHealth) application software (apps) presents an exciting new opportunity to improve health and wellness. However, if mobile apps are poorly designed, they may contribute to the challenges most...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Jan 23, 2014 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
Background The use of social networking sites (SNSs) is widespread. As of December 2012, 67 percent of American adults with Internet access used some form of social media, and 59 percent of them used the Internet to look for health-related information (Brenner,...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Jan 6, 2014 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
The Institute of Medicine (IOM) defines a learning health system as a system that has the capacity to both apply and generate reliable scientific evidence in the delivery of care (IOM, 2007). Although it may seem obvious that both the demands for higher...
by Laura DeStefano | Dec 3, 2013 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
A movement for population health starts with a basic understanding that health is determined by far more than health care and that the focus of health investments must go beyond health care alone. It follows that we need to invest in healthy environments, in...
