Health IT Analytics June 20, 2018
Collaborations between the public health and clinical care sectors can significantly improve population health, but how can stakeholders ensure these partnerships are successful?
Promoting and maintaining population health has always required combined effort from public health offices, private healthcare entities, and social service organizations. Each sector plays its own distinct role in addressing the community, individual, and social factors that influence health and wellness.
Many of the most severe health challenges Americans face today are closely related to the conditions in which individuals live, work, and play, including costly chronic diseases such as diabetes.
Opioid abuse, another major population health challenge, is also often significantly tied to individuals’ social and environmental circumstances.
However, many of the organizations that work to...