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.
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- 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
- Health States of Exception: unsafe non-care and the (inadvertent) production of ‘bare life’ in complex care transitions.
- National 30-day readmission and prolonged length of stay after vestibular schwannoma surgery: Analysis of the Nationwide Readmissions Database.
- Does Scheduling a Postdischarge Visit with a Primary Care Physician Increase Rates of Follow-up and Decrease Readmissions?
- Effect of Hospital Readmission Reduction Program on Hospital Readmissions and Mortality Rates.
- Factors Associated with 30-day Unplanned Readmissions of Sepsis Patients: A Retrospective Analysis of Patients Admitted with Sepsis at a Community Hospital.
- Defining readmissions among patients undergoing open reduction and internal fixation (ORIF) in claims database analyses.
- Re: Timely Outpatient Follow-Up Is Associated with Fewer Hospital Readmissions Among Patients with Behavioral Health Conditions.
- Readmissions, revisions, and mortality after treatment for proximal humeral fractures in three large states.
- Effect of home-based follow-up intervention on readmissions and mortality in heart failure patients: a meta-analysis.
- Long-term asthma-related readmissions: comparison between children admitted and not admitted to the intensive care unit for critical asthma.
- 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.
- Impact of rational emotive occupational health coaching on work-related stress management among staff of Nigeria police force.
- Health coaching to improve self-care of informal caregivers of adults with chronic heart failure – iCare4Me: Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.
- Effects of non-medical health coaching on multimorbid patients in primary care: a difference-in-differences analysis.
- Adolescents’ Use of Digital Technologies and Preferences for Mobile Health Coaching in Public Mental Health Settings.
- What Is the Effect of Health Coaching Delivered by Physical Therapists? A Systematic Review of Randomized Controlled Trials.
- Peer Benchmarking and Norm-Based Scoring to Improve Telephonic Health Coaching Quality.
- Satisfaction with a digitally-enabled telephone health coaching intervention for people with non-diabetic hyperglycaemia.
- Primary Care-Based Health Coaching Intervention for Weight Loss in Overweight/Obese Adults: A 2-Year Experience.
- Implementing a Health Coaching Curriculum in Hawaii’s Community Health Centers.
- Protocol for a cluster-randomized controlled trial of a technology-assisted health coaching intervention for weight management in primary care: The GEM (goals for eating and moving) intervention.
- Disparities of HIV risk and PrEP use among transgender women of color in South Florida.
- Enhanced Recovery After Surgery Protocols May Help Reduce Racial and Socioeconomic Disparities in Cardiac Surgery.
- Individuals’ economic value orientation or social equity value orientation? A dual value orientation in the process of house demolition compensation.
- Functional disparities within the TIMP family in cancer: hints from molecular divergence.
- How can multiple frames enable action on social determinants? Lessons from Australia’s paid parental leave.
- Nephrologists and patients: between vulnerability and equity.
- Analytical framework and data for evaluating a City Resilience Strategy’s emphasis on social equity and justice.
- Re: Disparities in Bladder Cancer Treatment and Survival amongst Elderly Patients with a Pre-Existing Mental Illness.
- Racial Disparities in Patient Selection for Liver Transplantation: An Ongoing Challenge.
- Racial disparities of liver cancer mortality in Wisconsin.
- Elements of the healthy work environment associated with lower primary care nurse burnout.
- Managing a case of acute calculous cholecystitis at home: Highlighting the role of family physicians in providing home-based care.
- Reasons for obstetric referrals from community facilities to a tertiary obstetric facility: A study from Southern Karnataka.
- The Impact of Rhode Island’s Multipayer Patient-centered Medical Home Program on Utilization and Cost of Care.
- Optimizing the Role of Community Pharmacists in Managing the Health of Populations: Barriers, Facilitators, and Policy Recommendations.
- A Bayesian Difference-in-Difference Framework for the Impact of Primary Care Redesign on Diabetes Outcomes.
- Adolescent Access to Patient-Centered Medical Homes.
- The Association of Abnormal Liver Tests with Hepatitis C Testing in Primary Care.
- Capsule Commentary on Gimm et al., Provider Experiences with a Payer-Based PCMH Program.
- When Do Clinicians Follow-up Abnormal Liver Tests in Primary Care?
- Patient engagement or information overload: patient and physician views on sharing the medical record in the acute setting.
- Diabetes Prevention Program attendance is associated with improved patient activation: Results from the Prediabetes Informed Decisions and Education (PRIDE) study.
- Values-Based Interventions in Patient Engagement for Those with Complex Needs.
- PRACTITIONER APPLICATION: Patient’s Views about Patient Engagement and Representation in Healthcare Governance.
- Patients’ Views About Patient Engagement and Representation in Healthcare Governance.
- Evaluating the “return on patient engagement initiatives” in medicines research and development: A literature review.
- Designing a Framework of Components to Support Patient Engagement in Research.
- Associations Between Engagement With an Online Health Community and Changes in Patient Activation and Health Care Utilization: Longitudinal Web-Based Survey.
- The association between patient engagement HIT functionalities and quality of care: Does more mean better?
- A Mobile Application for Patient Engagement to Support Interdisciplinary Care.
- A Framework for Resident Participation in Population Health.
- Collective Well-Being to Improve Population Health Outcomes: An Actionable Conceptual Model and Review of the Literature.
- A Public Health Framework to Improve Population Health Through Health Care and Community Clinical Linkages: The ASTHO/CDC Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention Learning Collaborative.
- Hospital Partnerships in Population Health Initiatives.
- Making Better Use of Population Health Data for Community Health Needs Assessments.
- Integrating Population Health Concepts Into Community Health Simulation Experiences.
- Cooling The Hot Spots Where Child Hospitalization Rates Are High: A Neighborhood Approach To Population Health.
- Critical Reflexivity of Communities on Their Experience to Improve Population Health.
- How Academic Health Systems Can Achieve Population Health in Vulnerable Populations Through Value-Based Care: The Critical Importance of Establishing Trusted Agency.
- The SMART Framework: Integration of Citizen Science, Community-Based Participatory Research, and Systems Science for Population Health Science in the Digital Age.
