How executives' expectations and experiences shape population health management strategies.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:Within Population Health Management (PHM) initiatives, stakeholders from various sectors apply PHM strategies, via which services are reorganised and integrated in order to improve population health and quality of care while reducing cost growth. This study unravelled how stakeholders' expectations and prior experiences influenced stakeholders intended PHM strategies. METHODS:This study used realist principles. Nine Dutch PHM initiatives participated. Seventy stakeholders (mainly executive level) from seven different stakeholder groups (healthcare insurers, hospitals, primary care groups, municipalities, patient representative organisations, regional businesses and program managers of the PHM initiatives) were interviewed. Associations between expectations, prior experiences and

SUBMITTER: Steenkamer BM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6815420 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature