Health Affairs March 11, 2024
Editor’s Note
This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront series, Accountable Care for Population Health, featuring analysis and discussion of how to understand, design, support, and measure patient-centered, cost-efficient care under the umbrella of accountable care. Additional articles will be published throughout 2024. Readers are encouraged to review the Call for Submissions for this series. We are grateful to Arnold Ventures for their support of this work.
Policy makers and health care leaders are well aware that despite spending twice as much per capita on health care, the US leads amongst high-income countries in early mortality. Within the US, health disparities are widening and pervasive, with variations in life expectancy present across geographic scales (neighborhoods, counties, and...