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... as the patient. Citing For the Public's Health: The Role of Measurement in Action and Accountability, he framed the nexus between health care and population health as the application of health strategies, interventions, and policies at the population level in a way that can advance current approaches to the nation's most pressing health concerns more efficiently than is possible with isolated, intensive, individual-level actions within the clinical care sector (IOM, 2011)
From page 6...
... Flores said the ACA is creating opportunities to deal with each of these domains and providing incentives for developing innovations that will shift health care from today's high-volume and high-cost health care system focused on personal service to a future system that stresses healthy lifestyles and healthy environments. In his view, achieving this transformation is essential if the nation is to reduce morbidity and enable people to live longer, healthier lives through a sustainable investment in individual medical care.
From page 7...
... Beyond the main purpose of the ACA, the law's implementation affords the opportunity to move down the path of integrating population health into the health care system, elevate the priority for primary prevention and health equity, bridge clinical care and community health in "health homes," empower consumers and communities to improve health outcomes, and provide incentives to improve workplace wellness. There are a number of challenges to shifting the focus of the health care delivery system toward a population health perspective, Flores explained.
From page 8...
... In closing his presentation, Flores quoted remarks made by Lawrence Brilliant, President of the Skoll Global Threats Fund, at the 2013 Commencement for the Harvard School of Public Health: "Somehow, these two sides of our national health debate -- one outward looking at social justice and inclusion and one looking inward at high quality patient care that is exclusionary, met then [1960s "Great Society"] and must meet now on sacred ground, sharing the profound obligation -- and great joy -- of improving the health of the people."


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