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Appendix A: Glossary
Pages 95-98

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... definition of quality in public health reference to "conditions in which people can be healthy," denoting the determinants of health or factors influencing health. These also correspond to intermediate outcomes.
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... : The Forum is a nonprofit membership organization that "operates under a three-part mission to improve the quality of American health care by  building consensus on national priorities and goals for perfor mance improvement and working in partnership to achieve them;  endorsing national consensus standards for measuring and pub licly reporting on performance; and  promoting the attainment of national goals through education and outreach programs."2 National Quality Strategy: In 2010, the Affordable Care Act charged HHS with developing a national quality strategy to "improve the delivery of health care services, patient health outcomes, and population health. After engaging both public and private stakeholders and collecting input, the National Quality Strategy was released in March 2011."3 The nine aims or the nine characteristics: see Quality characteristics Population health: The health of the public in a geopolitical location; see also Total population health 2 See http://www.qualityforum.org/About_NQF/About_NQF.aspx (accessed June 27, 2013)
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... healthy people/healthy communities; see also Triple Aim Total population health: A term developed to distinguish the public health profession's understanding of population health from the narrower interpretation of population health used in the health care delivery sector. Total population health refers to the population in a geopolitical area, while the term "subpopulations" can be used to describe the populations of patients or insured individuals to which practitioners in health care delivery refer.
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