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Population Health Focus
Population health refers to the physical, social, cultural, and economic environment in which we work and live (Radzyminski, 2006)."
This has become a focus of many managed health care organizations as they work to reduce the risks to their local consumers by way of stress, environmental factors and other elements that have a direct impact on the consumer health concerns.
The goal of population health is to maximize the health of any given population. In doing so it contains elements of program development, development/evaluation of health care policy, and program and systems evaluation. It uses an approach that concentrates on predisposing, enabling, and reinforcing factors within a given population to develop therapeutic strategies designed to decrease behaviors associated with health risk, prevent habituation or the relapse and recidivism of behavior (Radzyminski, 2006)."
Conclusion
The world of managed health care is expanding and with that expansion comes improvements....
The use of cost containment, population focus, quality improvement, and health preventaion strategies all work to reduce the cost of overall care thereby allowing consumers to receive effective care at lower costs.
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