Community Health Solutions publishes ElevatingHealth.net as a free source of ideas for improving health and health care in your community. Our purpose is not to cover every idea under the sun, but to show a cross-section of emerging approaches for improving health and health care at the community level. We look forward to collaborating with you to make ElevatingHealth.net your first stop for finding and sharing ideas for community health improvement.
Check here for ideas and insights from our CHS Team.
- The Health Asset Model
- Learning to Be Great
- How to Demonstrate the Value of Your Organization
- Leading Change by Design
- Five Strategic Keys for Effective Community Collaboration
- Infographic – Five Questions to Ask Community Members about Community Health Improvement
- Infographic – The Five Most Important Questions You Can Ask About Your Organization
- Association between cultural factors and readmissions: the mediating effect of hospital discharge practices and care-transition preparedness.
- Predictors of 1-month and 3-months Hospital Readmissions in Decompensated Cirrhosis: A Prospective Study in a Large Asian Cohort.
- A nurse-led structured education program improves self-management skills and reduces hospital readmissions in patients with chronic heart failure: a randomized and controlled trial in China.
- Socioeconomic status (SES) and 30-day hospital readmissions for chronic obstructive pulmonary (COPD) disease: A population-based cohort study.
- Achievable Benchmarks of Care for Pediatric Readmissions.
- Variation Among Primary Care Physicians in 30-Day Readmissions.
- Employing Technology to Make Care Transitions Safer.
- Relationships Between Residential Care Community Characteristics and Overnight Hospital Stays and Readmissions: Results From the National Study of Long-Term Care Providers.
- Intensive care unit readmissions- Separate entity or a disease continuum.
- Readmissions Following Isolated Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery in the United States (from the Nationwide Readmissions Database 2010 to 2014).
- Teaching Community Health Needs Assessment to First Year Medical Students: Integrating with Longitudinal Clinical Experience in Rural Communities.
- Community health needs assessment for a child health promotion program in Kyrgyzstan.
- Utilizing Community Health Needs Assessments (CHNAs) in Nonprofit Hospitals to Guide Population-Centered Outcomes Research for Pediatric Patients: New Recommendations for CHNA Reporting.
- Nonprofit hospitals’ approach to community health needs assessment.
- Community health needs assessment and action planning in seven Dominican bateyes.
- Identifying health conditions, priorities, and relevant multilevel health promotion intervention strategies in African American churches: A faith community health needs assessment.
- Community health needs assessment: a nurses’ global health project in Vietnam.
- An Innovative Partnership to Improve Student Health: Response to a Community Health Needs Assessment.
- Trialing the Community-Based Collaborative Action Research Framework: Supporting Rural Health Through a Community Health Needs Assessment.
- Local Health Departments’ Role in Nonprofit Hospitals’ Community Health Needs Assessment.
- Assistive Conversational Agent for Health Coaching: A Validation Study.
- Correction to: Health coaching to improve self-management and quality of life for low income patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD): protocol for a randomized controlled trial.
- Effects of Customized Long-Message Service and Phone-Based Health-Coaching on Elderly People with Hypertension.
- Health changing conversations: clinicians’ experience of health coaching in the East of England.
- Does health coaching improve health-related quality of life and reduce hospital admissions in people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease? A systematic review and meta-analysis.
- Telehealth-Based Health Coaching Increases m-Health Device Adherence and Rate of Weight Loss in Obese Participants.
- Neighborhood Deprivation and the Effectiveness of Mobile Health Coaching to Improve Periconceptional Nutrition and Lifestyle in Women: Survey in a Large Urban Municipality in the Netherlands.
- Health Coaching: A Preliminary Report on the Effects in Traumatic Brain Injury/Polytrauma Patients.
- Expectations Regarding Workplace Health Coaching: A Qualitative Study With Stakeholders.
- Effect of Health Coaching Delivered by a Respiratory Therapist or Nurse on Self-Management Abilities in Severe COPD: Analysis of a Large Randomized Study.
- Text message remote monitoring reduced racial disparities in postpartum blood pressure ascertainment.
- Optimization and validation of the EconomicClusters model for facilitating global health disparities research: Examples from Cameroon and Ghana.
- Mapping gender transition sentiment patterns via social media data: toward decreasing transgender mental health disparities.
- Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Mammogram Frequency Among Women With Intellectual Disability.
- Gender Disparities in Deep Brain Stimulation for Parkinson’s Disease.
- Socioeconomic Disparities of Depressive Symptoms and Cytokines in Hepatocellular Carcinoma.
- Advancing Equity in Nephrology: Enhancing Care for LGBTQ+ Patients and Our Workforce.
- Hysterectomy-Corrected Uterine Corpus Cancer Incidence Trends and Differences in Relative Survival Reveal Racial Disparities and Rising Rates of Nonendometrioid Cancers.
- Equity analysis of resource distribution for the Popular Pharmacy Program.
- A gender-transformative approach to improve outcomes and equity among persons with traumatic brain injury.
- Clarification of references to medication adherence scale.
- Patient-centered medical homes and preventive service use.
- Defining High Value Elements for Reducing Cost and Utilization in Patient-Centered Medical Homes for the TOPMED Trial.
- Pharmacist-provided services and community pharmacist integration into a patient-centered medical home: A qualitative study of primary care clinic staff perceptions.
- Practice Characteristics Associated with Better Implementation of Patient Self-Management Support.
- A Model for Sustaining Health at the Primary Care Level.
- Provider Experiences with a Payer-Based PCMH Program.
- Provider perceptions of pharmacists providing mental health medication support in patient-centered medical homes.
- Beyond checkboxes: A qualitative assessment of physicians’ experiences providing care in a patient-centred medical home.
- Does this HIV-positive patient have progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy or PML-immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome?
- Patient Engagement Activities and Patient Experience: Are Patients With a History of Depression the Canary in the Coal Mine?
- A Novel Collaborative Approach to Building Better Clinical Trials: New Insights From a Patient Engagement Workshop to Propel Patient-Centricity Forward.
- Patient engagement in admission and discharge medication communication: A systematic mixed studies review.
- Patient engagement activities with health care professionals in continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis therapy: an exploratory pilot study.
- Changes in Patient Activation in a Self-Management Intervention.
- Change in Patient Activation and Mental Illness Symptoms After Communication Training: A Multisite Study With a Diverse Patient Sample.
- The MOPEAD project: Advancing patient engagement for the detection of “hidden” undiagnosed cases of Alzheimer’s disease in the community.
- Influence of Patient Activation, Pain Self-Efficacy, and Resilience on Pain Intensity and Magnitude of Limitations in Patients With Hip and Knee Arthritis.
- Validation of the Brazilian Version of the Patient Activation Measure 13.
- Development and Validation of the Ventral Hernia Repair Outcomes Reporting App for Clinician and Patient Engagement (ORACLE).
- Population health management in a small health system: Impact of controlled substance stewardship in a patient-centered medical home.
- Pharmacists supporting population health in patient-centered medical homes.
- Population health and medicine: Policy and financial drivers.
- Community pharmacies and population health.
- Population health management: An independent physician organization approach.
- Response to “‘Family Medicine’s Task in Population Health: Defining It and Owning It’ Begins With the Community” and “Family Medicine and Social Determinants”.
- “Family Medicine’s Task in Population Health: Defining It and Owning It” Begins With the Community.
- The Key Role of Work in Population Health Inequities.
- Charitable food as prevention: Food bank leadership perspectives on food banks as agents in population health.
- Students Adding Value: Improving Patient Care Measures While Learning Valuable Population Health Skills.
