274935 Population Health Improvements and Public Health Quality

Monday, October 29, 2012 : 12:45 PM - 1:00 PM

Rohit Ramaswamy, PhD, MPH , Public Health Leadership Program, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
Quality, as a pathway to population health improvements, is central to achieving better care, better health, and lower cost. An alignment of quality in public health and healthcare plays a critical role in achieving population health improvements. This session will illustrate the value of developing public health quality measures and the relationship of measures to improvements in population health management.

Learning Objectives:
Define population health Identify public health quality measures

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I am a senior faculty member with a systems science background and MPH and developed a chapter on public ehalth quality for the HHS quality textbook.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.