Healthcare DIVE February 6, 2018
Using population health factors to create policy is becoming more popular, but the challenges are numerous.
Chief among them are quantifying and monetizing health information that may not lend itself to such analysis and getting groups with different priorities to work together toward a shared outcome.
Speakers at the National Health Policy Conference in Washington this week noted several distinct ways to evaluate programs that aim to improve population health. An underlying theme: more coordination, transparency and evidence is needed.
Cost-benefit analyses and ROI consider financial gains by the government or a business from a program relative to what it invests. Cost-effectiveness, in contrast, looks beyond monetary gain to aspects like improved health factors that aren’t explicitly linked to specific...
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