Comparing the Health of Populations: Methods to Evaluate and Tailor Population Management Initiatives in the Netherlands.

ABSTRACT: Health care no longer focuses solely on patients and increasingly emphasizes regions and their populations. Strategies, such as population management (PM) initiatives, aim to improve population health and well-being by redesigning health care and community services. Hence, insight into population health is needed to tailor interventions and evaluate their effects. This study aims to assess whether population health differs between initiatives and to what extent demographic, personal, and lifestyle factors affect these differences. A population health survey that included the Short Form 12 version 2 (SF12, physical and mental health status), Patient Activation Measure 13 (PAM13), and demographic, personal, and lifestyle factors was administered in 9 Dutch PM initiatives. Potential confounde

SUBMITTER: Hendrikx RJP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6161317 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature