Health Affairs April 6, 2015
The term population health [1] is much more widely used now than in 2003 when Greg Stoddart and I proposed the following definition: “the health outcomes of a group of individuals, including the distribution of such outcomes within the group.” The term is often seen in policy discussion, research, and in the name of new academic departments and institutes.
The term’s growing use, most notably in the Triple Aim [2] and in clinical settings, has resulted in a conflicting understanding of the term today. In this post, I discuss the evolution of the term population health, and argue that going forward multiple definitions are needed. While the traditional population health definition can be reserved for geographic populations, new terms such...
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