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
- Aiming to Improve Readmissions Through InteGrated Hospital Transitions (AIRTIGHT): a Pragmatic Randomized Controlled Trial.
- Palliative care and hospital readmissions in patients with advanced heart failure: Insights from the PAL-HF trial.
- Glaucoma, dementia, and the “precipice of care”: transitions between states of medication adherence.
- Analysis of readmissions after transoral robotic surgery for oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma.
- Ninety-Day Readmissions of Bundled Valve Patients: Implications for Healthcare Policy.
- Improving the ED-to-Home Transition: The Community Paramedic-Delivered Care Transitions Intervention-Preliminary Findings.
- Prediction of readmissions and mortality in patients with heart failure: lessons from the IMPEDANCE-HF extended trial.
- Hospitals Can Now Factor Socioeconomic Status into Readmissions.
- Effect of a medicines management model on medication-related readmissions in older patients admitted to a medical acute admission unit-A randomized controlled trial.
- Disparities In Readmissions: The Authors Reply.
- 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.
- Community Health Needs Assessment as a Teaching Tool in a Family Medicine Residency.
- Community Health Needs Assessment: Potential for Population Health Improvement.
- Cost-Effectiveness of Health Coaching and Financial Incentives to Promote Physical Activity after Total Knee Replacement.
- Perceptions of Health Coaching for Behavior Change Among Medicaid and Commercially Insured Adults.
- Health Coaching Strategy to Improve Glycemic Control in African- American Adults with Type 2 Diabetes: An Integrative Review.
- Is telephone health coaching a useful population health strategy for supporting older people with multimorbidity? An evaluation of reach, effectiveness and cost-effectiveness using a ‘trial within a cohort’.
- Telemedicine-Based Health Coaching Is Effective for Inducing Weight Loss and Improving Metabolic Markers.
- Experiences of a health coaching self-management program in patients with COPD: a qualitative content analysis.
- The effect of health coaching on treatment adherence, self-efficacy, and quality of life in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
- Randomized Trial of a Health Coaching Intervention to Enhance Retention in Care: California Collaborative Treatment Group 594.
- A systematic review of pharmacy health coaching and an evaluation of patient outcomes.
- mHealth Technology and Nurse Health Coaching to Improve Health in Diabetes: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial.
- Survival Disparities by Race and Ethnicity in Early Esophageal Cancer.
- [Equity of outpatient service utilization for hypertensive patients in community].
- Setting the record straight on taxation and disparities in smoking.
- Differential Redox State Contributes to Sex Disparities in the Response to Influenza Virus Infection in Male and Female Mice.
- Adapting a health equity tool to meet professional needs (Québec, Canada).
- Does health literacy mediate the relationship between socioeconomic status and health disparities? Integrative review.
- Effect of Interferon-Free Regimens on Disparities in Hepatitis C Treatment of US Veterans.
- Racial Disparities in Preemptive Referral for Kidney Transplantation in Georgia.
- Closing the Gap on Pediatric Palliative Oncology Disparities.
- Disparities of age-based cancer-specific survival improvement with various clinicopathologic characteristics for kidney cancer.
- Multiyear Performance Trends Analysis of Primary Care Practices Demonstrating Patient-Centered Medical Home Transformation: An Observation of Quality Improvement Indicators among Outpatient Clinics.
- Principles of family medicine practice: Lessons gleaned over a lifetime in practice.
- Do Medical Homes Improve Quality of Care for Persons with Multiple Chronic Conditions?
- The impact of patient-centered medical homes on medication adherence?
- The Relationship Between the Patient-Centered Medical Homes, Healthcare Expenditures, and Quality of Care Among Children with Special Health Care Needs.
- The Effect of Clinical Pharmacists on Readmission Rates of Heart Failure Patients in the Accountable Care Environment.
- Engaging family supporters of adult patients with diabetes to improve clinical and patient-centered outcomes: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.
- Shaping the Patient-Centered Medical Home to the Needs of HIV Safety Net Patients: The Impact of Stigma and the Need for Trust.
- Examining differential performance of 3 medical home recognition programs.
- Trends in primary care encounters across professional roles in PCMH.
- Patient-Reported Outcome Measures in the Food and Drug Administration Pilot Compendium: Meeting Today’s Standards for Patient Engagement in Development?
- Exploring Meaningful Patient Engagement in ADAPTABLE (Aspirin Dosing: A Patient-centric Trial Assessing Benefits and Long-term Effectiveness).
- Building Meaningful Patient Engagement in Research: Case Study From ADVANCE Clinical Data Research Network.
- Describing a Process for Creating a Patient Visible Quality Educational Display to Increase Patient Engagement in Radiation Oncology Throughout the Canadian Maritimes Provinces.
- Effect of self-monitoring on long-term patient engagement with mobile health applications.
- The Association Between Increased Levels of Patient Engagement With an Internet Support Group and Improved Mental Health Outcomes at 6-Month Follow-Up: Post-Hoc Analyses From a Randomized Controlled Trial.
- Understanding of Key Obstetric Quality Terminology by Asian and Pacific Islander Subgroups: Implications for Patient Engagement and Health Equity.
- Using qualitative research perspectives to inform patient engagement in research.
- Beyond binary retention in HIV care: Predictors of the dynamic processes of patient engagement, disengagement, and re-entry into care in a US clinical cohort.
- Sharpening the focus: differentiating between focus groups for patient engagement vs. qualitative research.
- Capsule Commentary on Mehta et al. Race/Ethnicity and Adoption of a Population Health Management Approach to Colorectal Cancer Screening in a Community-Based Healthcare System.
- Implementation of a Comprehensive Population Health Management Model.
- [HADASSAH MEDICAL ORGANIZATION – A PIONEER IN POPULATION HEALTH].
- The application of implementation science theories for population health: A critical interpretive synthesis.
- MD Anderson's Population Health Approaches to Cancer Prevention.
- Collective Well-Being to Improve Population Health Outcomes: An Actionable Conceptual Model and Review of the Literature.
- Costs and outcomes of improving population health through better social housing: a cohort study and economic analysis.
- The new era of precision population health: insights for the All of Us Research Program and beyond.
- Expansion of Coproduction in Health Care as a Population Health Management Approach.
- Development and validation of a cardiovascular disease risk-prediction model using population health surveys: the Cardiovascular Disease Population Risk Tool (CVDPoRT).
