Culture of Health
Cultivating good health and well-being is as important to patients as it is within health care organizations. Building a culture of health depends on the collaboration between communities, businesses, and health care organizations.
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- Indiana University Health integrated health equity into its core values and clinical performance improvement in an effort to reduce disparities among patients.
- PUBLIC HEALTH AND CARE DELIVERY THEME ISSUE: A collaborative effort among health care, public health, and research experts in Dallas, Texas, produced a dynamic dashboard tool that leverages AI and machine learning to utilize microgeographic–level clinical and social risk data to identify communities at high risk for poor asthma outcomes,...
- PUBLIC HEALTH AND CARE DELIVERY THEME ISSUE: It is not only possible, but imperative, to reimagine a health system where public health and care delivery work hand in hand. The path forward, however, requires implementation beyond ideas: building the evidence, tools, and the will for putting partnerships into action.
- PUBLIC HEALTH AND CARE DELIVERY THEME ISSUE: NEJM Catalyst Insights Council members call for collaboration between public health and care delivery organizations, yet revenue models and other barriers keep them far apart.
- PUBLIC HEALTH AND CARE DELIVERY THEME ISSUE: The impact of the San Francisco Health Systems Collaborative model not only contributed to positive pandemic-related outcomes, but also was used during the mpox outbreak and may be expanded for other matters of concern to both public health and care delivery providers.
- PUBLIC HEALTH AND CARE DELIVERY THEME ISSUE: Through partnerships with trusted community-based organizations, health systems and public health are able to expand access to care for the vulnerable segments of the population. The experience of Saint Paul – Ramsey County Public Health, Fairview Health Services, and many local community and...
- PUBLIC HEALTH AND CARE DELIVERY THEME ISSUE: North East Medical Services and the San Francisco Department of Public Health collaborated on a tuberculosis risk-stratification algorithm for patients who are asymptomatic and tuberculosis screening test–positive with abnormal chest imaging in the primary care setting.
- PUBLIC HEALTH AND CARE DELIVERY THEME ISSUE: New York City’s multipronged approach to the 2022 mpox outbreak included rapid delivery of antivirals, targeted messaging and outreach to providers, and integrating multiple data sources to monitor utilization.
- PUBLIC HEALTH AND CARE DELIVERY THEME ISSUE: The August 2024 issue of NEJM Catalyst Innovations in Care Delivery showcases successful collaborations between public health and care delivery organizations.
- PUBLIC HEALTH AND CARE DELIVERY THEME ISSUE: A collaborative effort spearheaded by public health professionals used landscape analysis to gain insights from various segments of the health care community that would be affected directly and indirectly by the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2022 decision to overturn the federally protected health care...
- Efforts by health care organizations to address racial inequities have yielded some promising results. However, iterative and ongoing evaluation and quality improvement measures for both inpatient and outpatient pulmonary care are critical.
- The June 2024 issue of NEJM Catalyst Innovations in Care Delivery underscores the need for progress in addressing unequal health care, and offers hope.
- NEJM Catalyst Insights Council members say improving equity in health care is personally important to them, but real progress is lacking.
- NEJM Catalyst Insights Council members discuss equity in care delivery.
The Current Situation and Thinking of Medical Services, Medical Quality, and Medical Safety in China
An analysis of a 5-year period reveals that comprehensive health reform policies over time can contribute to improvements in health care resources, service coverage, and patient safety while also highlighting the need for ongoing efforts to address ongoing challenges.- Although supervised consumption spaces have achieved successes in preventing overdose deaths through wraparound services centered in a harm-reduction approach, the precarious nature of funding streams, legal status, and community concerns presents challenges to sustainability for the overdose prevention center model.
- Sparked by the racist behavior by patients toward one of their clinical team members, HealthPartners Institute has built on its existing simulation programs to prepare a model to help staff understand how they can intervene and support colleagues in instances in which patients engage in this inappropriate behavior.
- Those working to fight health disparities must pinpoint the root causes of those disparities for each specific, unique community.
- Addressing the needs of the workforce through physical, mental, social, and financial services.
- A roundtable discussion focused on how anchor institutions connect and work with the communities they serve.
