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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
- Readmissions to General ICUs in a Geographic Area of Poland Are Seemingly Associated with Better Outcomes.
- Readmissions after Acute Kidney Injury during Left Ventricular Assist Device Implantation Hospitalization.
- Fragmentation of Postpartum Readmissions in the United States.
- Effects of acute-phase multidisciplinary rehabilitation on unplanned readmissions after cardiac surgery.
- Timing of coronary artery bypass grafting after acute myocardial infarction may not influence mortality and readmissions.
- Machine Learning-based Risk of Hospital Readmissions: Predicting Acute Readmissions within 30 Days of Discharge.
- Trends and risk factors for 30-day readmissions in patients with acute cholangitis: analysis from the national readmission database.
- Response to: Non-specific chest pain and subsequent serious cardiovascular readmissions.
- Obesity Does Not Increase the Risk of Asthma Readmissions.
- The importance of sex as a risk factor for hospital readmissions due to pulmonary diseases.
- 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.
- Competencies and training of health professionals engaged in health coaching: A systematic review.
- Lay Health Coaching to Increase Appropriate Inhaler Use in COPD: A Randomized Controlled Trial.
- [Effects of Spouse-Participated Health Coaching for Male Office Workers with Cardiocerebrovascular Risk Factors].
- Eight-year post-trial follow-up of health care and long-term care costs of tele-based health coaching.
- The Brain Health Champion study: Health coaching changes behaviors in patients with cognitive impairment.
- Effectiveness of Short-Term Health Coaching on Diabetes Control and Self-Management Efficacy: A Quasi-Experimental Trial.
- Impact of a Mobile App-Based Health Coaching and Behavior Change Program on Participant Engagement and Weight Status of Overweight and Obese Children: Retrospective Cohort Study.
- For Physical Laborers with Type 2 Diabetes, Telephonic Health Coaching is not Enough to Improve A1C.
- I.CAN: health coaching provides tailored nutrition and physical activity guidance to people diagnosed with cancer in a rural region in West Gippsland, Australia.
- Mobile Health Coaching on Nutrition and Lifestyle Behaviors for Subfertile Couples Using the Smarter Pregnancy Program: Model-Based Cost-Effectiveness Analysis.
- Sekuwe (My House): building health equity through Dene First Nations housing designs.
- Fragmentation and inefficiencies in US equity markets: Evidence from the Dow 30.
- Promoting Health Equity and Criminal Justice Reform: The Louisiana Experience.
- Mass Incarceration and Subsequent Preventive Health Care: Mechanisms and Racial/Ethnic Disparities.
- Addressing Mass Incarceration to Achieve Health Equity.
- Climate crisis, health equity, and democratic governance: the need to act together.
- Mechanisms, policies, and tools to promote health equity and effective governance of the health risks of climate change.
- Making inferences about racial disparities in police violence.
- The Affordable Care Act and Ethnic Disparities in Colorectal Cancer Screening.
- Appalachian disparities in tobacco cessation treatment utilization in Medicaid.
- Patients' expectations for and experiences with primary healthcare services received from a patient centered medical home.
- Impact of Healthcare Delivery System Type on Clinical, Utilization, and Cost Outcomes of Patient-Centered Medical Homes: a Systematic Review.
- Behavioral health service utilization: Trends in utilization within a patient-centered medical home for low-income children and women.
- Development and implementation of a collaboration between a patient-centered medical home and community pharmacy.
- Providing Effective Primary Care for Patients with Serious Mental Illness: Additional Components to Enhance Practice.
- Pharmacy in an Improved Health Care Delivery Model Using Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs.
- Care Experiences of Patients with Multiple Chronic Conditions in a Payer-Based Patient-Centered Medical Home.
- Multipayer primary care transformation: impact for Medicaid managed care beneficiaries.
- CKD quality improvement intervention with PCMH integration: health plan results.
- Using Lean Performance Improvement for Patient-Centered Medical Home Transformation at an Academic Public Hospital.
- Patient Activation Related to Fall Prevention: A Multisite Study.
- Social Media for Doctors: Taking Professional and Patient Engagement to the Next Level.
- Reflections on the Evolution of Patient Engagement in Drug Development.
- Patient Engagement With an Automated Telephone Symptom Management Intervention: Predictors and Outcomes.
- Identifying Barriers to Care and Research in Hidradenitis Suppurativa: Findings from a Patient Engagement Event.
- A Novel Surgical Patient Engagement Model: A Qualitative Study of Postoperative Patients.
- Exploring the barriers to patient engagement in the delivery of safe care in Iranian hospitals: A qualitative study.
- Shared decision-making and patient engagement program during acute exacerbation of COPD hospitalization: A randomized control trial.
- Validation of the patient activation measure in patients at discharge from hospitals and at distance from hospital care in Sweden.
- [Terminology of patient engagement for French healthcare organizations].
- Advancing Population Health at Academic Medical Centers: A Case Study and Framework for an Emerging Field.
- LDL-Cholesterol Lowering Strategies and Population Health - Time to Move to a Cumulative Exposure Model.
- 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.
- Quality improvement as a population health promotion opportunity to reorient the healthcare system.
- Simulation modeling to enhance population health intervention research for chronic disease prevention.
- Alternative causal inference methods in population health research: Evaluating tradeoffs and triangulating evidence.
- Association of a Targeted Population Health Management Intervention with Hospital Admissions and Bed-Days for Medicaid-Enrolled Children.
- Impact of Political Economy on Population Health: A Systematic Review of Reviews.
- Government Health and Social Services Spending Show Evidence of Single-Sector Rather Than Multi-Sector Pursuit of Population Health.
- Impact on Population Health of Baltic Shipping Emissions.
