Building local decision-making competencies during COVID-19: Accelerating the transition from learning healthcare systems to learning health communities.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The persisting and evolving COVID-19 pandemic has made apparent that no singular policy of mitigation at a regional, national or global level has achieved satisfactory and universally acceptable results. In the United States, carefully planned and executed pandemic policies have been neither effective nor popular and COVID-19 risk management decisions have been relegated to individual citizens and communities. In this paper, we argue that a more effective approach is to equip and strengthen community coalitions to become local learning health communities (LLHCs) that use data over time to make adaptive decisions that can optimize the equity and well-being in their communities.

Methods

We used data from the North Carolina (NC) county and zip code levels fr

SUBMITTER: Ramaswamy R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9538137 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature