Managed Healthcare Executive October 21, 2020
What does it mean? When did it begin? How is it different from public health? Here are the answers to these questions and more.
The provenance of healthcare terminology is often difficult to pinpoint. Like success, jargon with staying power tends to have many parents.
So it is with “population health.” A Pubmed search shows the term was in the title of a paper on land monopoly in 1890, and it starts popping up in epidemiologic research titles in the 1970s. But some say it only really entered the healthcare vernacular in 2003, when David Kindig, M.D., Ph.D., of the University of Wisconsin and Greg Stoddart, Ph.D., of McMaster University Health Sciences Centre in Canada published a paper titled, “What...
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