Metrics that matter for population health action : workshop summary / Joe Alper, rapporteur.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

Alper, Joe, rapporteur.

Contributor:

Alper, Joe, rapporteur.

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (U.S.). Roundtable on Population Health Improvement, issuing body.

Conference Name:

Metrics that Matter for Population Health Action (Workshop) (2015 : Oakland, Calif.), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Outcome assessment (Medical care).

Medical statistics.

United States--Statistics, Medical--Congresses.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (141 pages) : color illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, District of Columbia : The National Academies Press, 2016.

Summary:

In times of rapid change and constrained resources, measures that are important, focused, and reliable are vital. However there is an overabundance of measures available for evaluating various aspects of population health and previous efforts to simplify existing sets to meet the needs of all decision makers have been unsuccessful. The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a workshop to explore the status and uses of measures and measurement in the work of improving population health. Participants explored existing and emerging population health metric sets and characteristics of metrics necessary for stakeholder action across multiple sectors. This report summarizes the presentations and discussions from the workshop.

Contents:

Introduction

The metrics landscape

Using metrics locally

Measurement and health equity

World café

Reflections on the workshop

Appendix A: References

Appendix B: Workshop agenda

Appendix C: Speaker, moderator, and invited guest biographical sketches.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 17, 2016).

ISBN:

0-309-39156-3

0-309-39154-7