Population health is more about seeing the big picture and considering the whole population rather just the individual—hence the name population, because that’s how words work.

Population health represents a real opportunity for providers to improve not only the health and well-being of those they serve, but also their own financial health.

Use of the term “population health” has surged in recent years. Much of this enthusiasm has been driven by the idea that health reform would restructure incentives and unite the priorities of ...

“Still, population health management isn’t something that can be done solely during patient visits or in the examining room,” said Cutitta. “You also have to think about technologies that can function ...

Population health is ultimately about the individual. The individuals in the population are either happy or sad, feel joy or pain, experience suffering and despair, and ultimately live or die.

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Evidence demonstrates that health and quality of life for all are shaped by interdependent historical and contemporary social, political, economic, environmental, genetic, behavioral, and health care ...

But success for health systems will require a recognition on their part that a gap exists between population health and current care management. And in the efforts taken to narrow that divide.

Even health systems that tout sophisticated population health strategies admit they’re still light on risk in their contracts with commercial insurers, which limits the scope of their results.

Health and Population Department Attock organised an interactive session with local journalists and columnists.The session was attended by DHO Dr Kashif, District Population Officer Zafar Iqbal, ...