A 15-Minute Course on Population Health
Are you in the healthcare, public health, or social services field and have recently heard the term “population health”? Is this a buzz word, or something to pay more attention to?
Programs of study in population health, as well as conferences and consulting services, are plentiful. Before you sort through it all, this quick study may help you wrap your head around what this concept and field refers to and how you might become a part of it. The field of population health transcends public health, medicine, and the healthcare system. Population health as a concept is the health of a group of people. To address population health, you may develop a new program, modify an existing one, gather data on the health of a group of people, or even design an academic curriculum on the topic. This is a new field and how to do population health is still a work in progress.
