P H 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: United Nations General Assembly, Global Health, Millennium Development Goals
Document Summary
Hope for integrations of public health and medical practice. Managed care organizations move incentives of medicine closer to mission of public health. Affordable care act contains provisions that could improve health outcomes through integration: free preventive services, lowered medical costs. Improves communication and data sharing among public health agencies at various levels and between public health agencies and clinical settings. Enables tracking of emerging infectious diseases, investigation of outbreaks and possible bioterrorism attacks, and monitoring of disease trends: databases are useful in assessment and evaluation of activities. Makes health information available to individuals: public health information network (phin) Provides opportunities for people to receive health information and monitor their behaviors: mobile apps have been used for smoking cessation and weight management. Increase coordination of care: less duplication of services. Us department of health and human services software allows sharing of data with various components of the health system.
