Swarthout Meghan, Bishop Martin A
Department of Pharmacy, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD
Johns Hopkins Outpatient Pharmacy, Baltimore, MD.
Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2017 Sep 15;74(18):1405-1411. doi: 10.2146/ajhp170025.
The terms population health, population health improvement, and population health management are discussed.
A key concept in defining population health activities is clearly delineating the population(s) of focus. The Institute for Healthcare Improvement's (IHI's) Triple Aim Initiative uses the term population health management to describe the work by healthcare organizations to improve outcomes for individual patients to maximize population health. The National Academy of Medicine favors the term population health improvement and uses this term to describe work to identify and improve aspects of or contributors to population health, expanding the focus beyond traditional healthcare delivery systems. As organizations like IHI and the National Academy of Medicine continue to focus on population health, the terms and definitions used to describe these activities will continue to evolve.
The use of consistent, clear definitions for population health activities is critical to the practice of pharmacy and healthcare delivery.
探讨人群健康、人群健康改善和人群健康管理等术语。
定义人群健康活动的一个关键概念是明确界定所关注的人群。医疗改进研究所（IHI）的三重目标倡议使用人群健康管理这一术语来描述医疗保健组织为改善个体患者的结局以最大化人群健康所开展的工作。美国国家医学院更倾向于使用人群健康改善这一术语，并以此来描述识别和改善人群健康的各个方面或影响因素的工作，将关注点扩展到传统医疗服务体系之外。随着像IHI和美国国家医学院这样的组织继续关注人群健康，用于描述这些活动的术语和定义将不断演变。
对人群健康活动使用一致、清晰的定义对于药学实践和医疗服务至关重要。
