Published in:
01-08-2019 | Editorial
Population Health and Aging
Authors:
John E. Morley, A. M. Sanford
Published in:
The journal of nutrition, health & aging
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Issue 8/2019
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Excerpt
The concept of “Population Health” is the understanding of the factors that modulate health outcomes of individuals living in a specific geographic area. This concept includes defining those distinguishing features amongst individuals residing in the same area that result in different outcomes. The data collected by the population health approach should lead to policy, regulation, and systems level change focusing on the economic, environmental, and social components that can lead to meaningful change in health outcomes for communities (
1). The focus of population health is to move the focus from “health care” to “health.” An appropriate implementation of population health should lead to a decrease in health care expenditure while increasing quality of life as well as life expectancy. …
