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7 Final Thoughts: Ideas for the Future
Pages 79-84

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... Raymond Baxter from Kaiser Permanente said that one issue that needs to be considered is how to catalyze the culture change that will be required across many areas of health care and public health if stake­ 79
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From page 80...
... "But the challenge is that there is a variety of professions where the understanding of how to use models is simply not there, and it results in a kind of dismissal of models as black boxes." Teutsch agreed with this last statement and noted that even good science gets dismissed by people who know how to use scientific uncertainty to cast doubt on topics where the science is actually compelling, such as the dangers of smoking, acid rain, and climate change. Continuing on that theme, John Auerbach said that how to gain acceptance of modeling as a core tool is an important discussion to have in the context of other national discussions about what foundational public health is at the local, state, and federal levels.
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From page 81...
... Isham noted that there are operational models that have a long track record in some of the leading health care organizations, such as Kaiser Permanente and HealthPartners, and he wondered what lessons can be learned from those operational models that can be applied to the larger task of improving health in populations and in communities larger than health care systems. 1Unless otherwise noted, the comments noted in this chapter were made by members of the Roundtable on Population Health Improvement, and the statements are not endorsed or verified by the Institute of Medicine.
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From page 82...
... He also said that models can be useful tools for presenting information clearly to decision makers. Mary Pittman first commented that the ReThink Health model has improved and become more refined each time she hears a presentation about it.
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From page 83...
... Modeling is playing an important part of this effort and will provide Kaiser with a better picture of how its actions as an organization affect the health of the communities in which it operates. The last comment came from Sanne Magnan, who remarked that one of the objectives for the workshop was to show how modeling could help decision makers, which the workshop did accomplish, but the presentations also highlighted how helpful modeling can be in creating conversations between the decision makers and communities, or, as she put it, between the treetops and the grass roots.
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