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What Is Population Health?

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Silberberg, M; Martinez-Bianchi, V; Lyn, MJ
Published in: Prim Care
December 2019

This article defines population health as the health outcomes of a group of individuals, including the distribution of such outcomes within the group. Population health includes health outcomes, patterns of health determinants, and policies and interventions that link these two. Attention to social and environmental, as well as medical, determinants of health is essential. The population health lens can be used at the individual, practice, institutional, and community levels. The need for primary care to engage in population health stems from the importance of social and environmental factors, the nature of primary care, and contextual changes.

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Published In

Prim Care

DOI

EISSN

1558-299X

Publication Date

December 2019

Volume

46

Issue

4

Start / End Page

475 / 484

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Social Determinants of Health
  • Population Health
  • Physicians, Primary Care
  • Physician's Role
  • Leadership
  • Humans
  • General & Internal Medicine
  • 32 Biomedical and clinical sciences
  • 11 Medical and Health Sciences
 

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Silberberg, M., Martinez-Bianchi, V., & Lyn, M. J. (2019). What Is Population Health? Prim Care, 46(4), 475–484. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pop.2019.07.001
Silberberg, Mina, Viviana Martinez-Bianchi, and Michelle J. Lyn. “What Is Population Health?Prim Care 46, no. 4 (December 2019): 475–84. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pop.2019.07.001.
Silberberg M, Martinez-Bianchi V, Lyn MJ. What Is Population Health? Prim Care. 2019 Dec;46(4):475–84.
Silberberg, Mina, et al. “What Is Population Health?Prim Care, vol. 46, no. 4, Dec. 2019, pp. 475–84. Pubmed, doi:10.1016/j.pop.2019.07.001.
Silberberg M, Martinez-Bianchi V, Lyn MJ. What Is Population Health? Prim Care. 2019 Dec;46(4):475–484.
Journal cover image

Published In

Prim Care

DOI

EISSN

1558-299X

Publication Date

December 2019

Volume

46

Issue

4

Start / End Page

475 / 484

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Social Determinants of Health
  • Population Health
  • Physicians, Primary Care
  • Physician's Role
  • Leadership
  • Humans
  • General & Internal Medicine
  • 32 Biomedical and clinical sciences
  • 11 Medical and Health Sciences