With a broken bus system in inner-city Detroit, some pregnant women had no access to proper prenatal care. The city’s infant mortality rate was climbing — it was comparable to the rate in some ...

Monitoring, understanding, and predicting population health is crucial for ensuring a healthy society. Data-driven approaches aimed at mapping and modeling health and longevity dynamics can help to ...

As the newly-appointed chief population health officer at York, Pa.-based WellSpan Health, Timothy Switaj, MD, is focused on developing a long-term strategy rooted in value-based care. The strategy’s ...

Perhaps the biggest priority of modern healthcare is to find ways to improve population health, as measured by improved outcomes and lower overall costs, aligned with the goals of value-based care.

Direct democracy through state ballot initiatives, initiated by both citizens and legislatures, holds potential for policy change relating to a large array of important social issues, including ...

Baptist Health South Florida operates a network of 11 hospitals covering four counties. It also includes numerous ambulatory facilities, urgent care centers and emergency departments to provide ...