The term "population health" has become so widely and diversely used that few healthcare leaders are able to identify its original definition, according to a survey conducted by the Milken Institute ...

First, what is the definition of population health? I was asked last year for a definition from George Washington University’s School of Public Health. Its MHA class was trying to define the term and ...

- the number of inhabitants (either the total number or the number of a particular race or class) in a given place (country or city etc.) Example - " people come and go, but the population of this ...

Healthcare providers are finding financially sustainable ways to spend big dollars on improving the health of their patient populations. This article first appeared in the October 2016 issue of ...

John Wilmoth is Director, Population Division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA). Clare Menozzi, Lina Bassarsky and Danan Gu are Population Officers, UN DESA.

From participants in the activities of the Institute of Medicine’s (IOM’s) Roundtable on Population Health Improvement comes a discussion paper about how population health research can impact an ...

Adrian Zai, MD, made a bold prediction about the current crop of IT products that enable population health management: “Suddenly you will find that all of the health IT tools companies call population ...

The United States infant mortality rate ranks among the worst for wealthy nations, a clear sign that our nation’s health needs improving. This year’s Frontiers in Precision Medicine III symposium will ...