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... Also contributing are a wider recognition that the health of the population depends on many factors beyond medical care and heightened concern about accountability for use of resources and whether desired results have been achieved. An interest in understanding how monitoring the activities performed by health care and public health agencies and organizations might contribute to improving the health of entire communities is the basis of a study by the Institute of Medicine (IOM)
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  • community health
  • personal health
  • entire communities
  • improve community
  • health improvement

  • stakeholders play
  • activities performed
  • promote improvements
  • using performance
  • health agencies

  • foster collaboration
  • improvement goals
  • health care
  • public health
  • medical care

  • beyond medical
  • factors beyond
  • heightened concern
  • wider recognition
  • desired results

  • population depends
  • human services
  • johnson foundation
  • robert wood
  • wood johnson


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