5 Population Health Trends to Watch
Managed Healthcare Executive April 27, 2021
Some of the usual suspects are on the list. And population health itself is trending as a competitive business and an area of study.
The U.S. healthcare system spends far more per capita than the healthcare systems of other industrialized nations. Yet the U.S. is notorious for having some of the worst outcomes when measuring health on a population basis. Those outcomes are, in part, a reflection of the country’s failure to address a plethora of unmet social and economic needs — unmet needs that wind up having consequences for people’s health, says Mitchell A. Kaminski, M.D., MBA, director of population health at the Jefferson College of Population Health in Philadelphia.
The out-of-whack ratio between high U.S. healthcare spending and...