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The term “population health” is often attributed to David Kindig and Greg Stoddard, who defined it in 2003 as “the health outcome of a group of individuals, including the distribution of such outcomes within the group.” Since then, definitions have expanded beyond a narrow focus on outcomes. Many definitions now connect health status and health outcomes to better healthcare and chronic disease management. Additionally, population health has also come to mean promoting health behavior change and addressing social determinants of health. Public Health and population health are closely linked but different. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) makes a distinction between public health and population health, noting public health’s emphasis on primary prevention and infectious disease control. This is in contrast with population health, for which they quote George Washington University’s Milken Institute – population health provides “an opportunity for health care systems, agencies and organizations to work together in order to improve the health outcomes of the communities they serve [1].” Public health focuses on ensuring conditions in which people can be healthy. Population health focuses on health outcomes and the determinants that influence those outcomes [2].
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Anim, T.E., Rust, G., Strong, C., Brown Speights, J.S. (2022). Population-Based Health Care. In: Paulman, P.M., Taylor, R.B., Paulman, A.A., Nasir, L.S. (eds) Family Medicine. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54441-6_160
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