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
- Developing a measure to assess the quality of care transitions for older people.
- Understanding nationwide readmissions after parotidectomy.
- Characterizing “Bounce-back” Readmissions After Radical Cystectomy.
- Patient and hospital characteristics associated with severe maternal morbidity among postpartum readmissions.
- Perioperative Opioid Prescribing Patterns and Readmissions After Total Knee Arthroplasty in a National Cohort of Veterans Health Administration Patients.
- Readmissions After Acute Hospitalization for Traumatic Brain Injury.
- Development of a predictive score for potentially avoidable hospital readmissions for general internal medicine patients.
- Hospital-Acquired Infections and Readmissions: Let’s Refocus on the Person.
- Postoperative opioid prescribing is not my job: A qualitative analysis of care transitions.
- Nutritional Assessment in Inpatients with Cirrhosis can be Improved after Training and is Associated with Lower Readmissions.
- 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.
- 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.
- Health coaching to encourage obese adults to enroll in commercially-available weight management programs: The path to health study.
- Barriers to and Facilitators of Weight Management in Adults Using a Meal Replacement Program That Includes Health Coaching.
- Promoting physical activity in regional and remote cancer survivors (PPARCS) using wearables and health coaching: randomised controlled trial protocol.
- Use of Z-Codes to Record Social Determinants of Health Among Fee-for-service Medicare Beneficiaries in 2017.
- Secular Trends in Adolescent Depressive Symptoms: Growing Disparities between Advantaged and Disadvantaged Schools.
- Developing and evaluating a lay health worker delivered implementation intervention to decrease engagement disparities in behavioural parent training: a mixed methods study protocol.
- At the Intersection of Rigor and Equity: Health Disparities Research Related to Aging.
- Short RNA regulators: the past, the present, the future, and implications for precision medicine and health disparities.
- Receipt of direct tobacco mail/email coupons and coupon redemption: Demographic and socioeconomic disparities among adult smokers in the United States.
- Are older adults’ demographic characteristics social determinants of their perceived importance, desire, and ability to perform end-of-life self-care actions?
- Social determinants associated to chronic pain after total knee arthroplasty.
- How do age and major risk factors for mortality interact over the life-course? Implications for health disparities research and public health policy.
- Screening for Both Child Behavior and Social Determinants of Health in Pediatric Primary Care: Commentary.
- 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.
- Specialty Physician Designation in Referrals from a Vertically Integrated PCMH.
- Impact of a pharmacist in improving quality measures that affect payments to physicians.
- Care Transformation Collaborative of Rhode Island: Building a Strong Foundation for Comprehensive, High-Quality Affordable Care.
- Patient-Reported Access in the Patient-Centered Medical Home and Avoidable Hospitalizations: an Observational Analysis of the Veterans Health Administration.
- Colorado Residency PCMH Project: Results From a 6-Year Transformation Effort.
- 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.
- Acute Care Patient Portal Intervention: Portal Use and Patient Activation.
- Patient Engagement and Multidisciplinary Involvement Has an Impact on Clinical Guideline Development and Decisions: A Comparison of Two Irritable Bowel Syndrome Guidelines Using the Same Data.
- The impact of genetic counseling on patient engagement in a specialty cancer clinic.
- Patient Engagement and its Evaluation Tools- Current Challenges and Future Directions Comment on “Metrics and Evaluation Tools for Patient Engagement in Healthcare Organization- and System-Level Decision-Making: A Systematic Review”.
- Patient Engagement, Access to Care, and Perceptions of Competing Priorities in the VA Primary Care Setting.
- The future state of patient engagement? Personal health information use, attitudes towards health, and health behavior.
- Understanding patient activation and adherence to nebuliser treatment in adults with cystic fibrosis: responses to the UK version of PAM-13 and a think aloud study.
- Knowledge, Skill, and Confidence in People Attending Pulmonary Rehabilitation: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of the Effects and Determinants of Patient Activation.
- Joint AGS-CCEHI Survey Offers Insights into Patient Engagement in Geriatric Clinical Settings.
- The Momentum trial: the efficacy of using a smartphone application to promote patient activation and support shared decision making in people with a diagnosis of schizophrenia in outpatient treatment settings: a randomized controlled single-blind trial.
- Current challenges in population health intervention research.
- Exposure to ambient air pollution and the incidence of lung cancer and breast cancer in the Ontario Population Health and Environment Cohort (ONPHEC).
- Twitter-based measures of neighborhood sentiment as predictors of residential population health.
- Re-examination of perinatal mental health policy frameworks for women signalling distress on the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) completed during their antenatal booking-in consultation: a call for population health intervention.
- 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 Promise of Precision Population Health: Reducing Health Disparities Through a Community Partnership Framework.
- Addressing Family Planning Access Barriers Using an Integrated Population Health Environment Approach in Rural Uganda.
- Using electronic health record data for environmental and place based population health research: a systematic review.
- Addressing Social Determinants of Health: Case Studies from Epic’s Population Health Steering Board.
