American Hospital Association May 29, 2019
As health care leaders, we support our practitioners to care for one patient at a time. At the same time, we have always known—and are now building out the tools to understand better—that there are patterns of need, utilization, and intervention that are common across groups of individuals, and that influence whether and how people stay healthy or recover once they are faced with an illness. In addition, we know that our access to resources to meet our financial and social needs has an enormous impact on our health. And finally, we’ve known for a long time that the assets within the community in which we live impact all of us as individuals.
Population health is our understanding of this...