HSC 4630 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Infant Mortality, Allostatic Load
Document Summary
Medical system focuses more on diagnosis and treatment of diseases. Slowly replaced by proactive effort to understand multiple determinants of. One way the country is re-orienting towards population health. University of wisconsin population health institute and robert wood johnson. Foundation created a model showing the health of almost every county in the nation. Illustrates that much of what affects health occurs outside the doctors office. Tampa bay partnership regional research and education foundation. Completed with the usf health policy management department. Recognition by community leaders that a healthy population is good for business. Significantly higher rate of diabetes than national and state level. Us government re-orienting establishment away from reactive disease diagonsis and treatment and towards public health. Aca requires new reporting from non-profit hospitals called community health. Each component have a relative weight that contributes to the health outcomes. Every 3 years the whole country conducts independent and hyper- localized community health improvement plans.
