Population Health

The Cleveland Clinic is in its early stages of popularizing the population's health care needs. Therefore, the clinic focused on getting details of the patients at high risk and those that require various healthcare resources (Russa, 2020). The clinic's main aim for enhancing population health is to enlighten the patients on healthy living to enhance their well-being and healthcare outcomes. Therefore, it is important to address the health problems affecting a particular population to mitigate health disparities by conducting surveys, interviews, and focus groups to identify the health issues and offer appropriate health living guidelines, enhancing healthcare accessibility and quality healthcare services.

Various factors contribute to health issues, including malnutrition, racism, unemployment, poverty, and discrimination. Therefore, addressing the various population health issues could help in advancing treatment outcomes, offering care at affordable prices, and enhancing patient coordination and engagement (BeLue, Davis, & Dix, 2021). It could also help healthcare professionals understand the healthcare needs of the overlooked patients in the community, help in designing better and patient-based services, and enhance the utilization of available resources to prevent healthcare problems (BeLue, Davis, & Dix, 2021). However, to find out the population's health issues, one could interview various focus groups and leaders in the community, conduct surveys to ascertain the population's health condition or use health data for the target population groups (center for rural health, 2022). However, the healthcare administration could address the various underlying population health issues by encouraging physical exercise, offering health education services to enhance health literacy, and enhancing healthcare accessibility (Waad, 2019). Therefore, healthcare administration must first find the population health issues through surveys, interviews, and considering health data to offer the appropriate intervention through health education programs and better healthcare services.

The healthcare administration must first find the population's health issues through surveys, interviews, and considering health data to offer the appropriate intervention through health education programs and better healthcare services. This is crucial as it helps improve the quality of care for overlooked population groups.

References

BeLue, R., Davis, T., & Dix, M. (2021). Social Determinants of Health: Health promotion for diverse populations. Population Health Management. doi:10.1891/9780826144270.0004

Centre for rural health. (2022). Community Health Needs Assessment Information from the Center for Rural Health. ruralhealth.und.edu/projects/community-health-needs-assessment

Russa. (2020, July 29). Population Health: Reinventing Care For Patients of tomorrow (video). consultqd.clevelandclinic.org/population-health-reinventing-care-for-patients-of-tomorrow-video/

Waad, A. (2019). Caring for our community: Telehealth Interventions as a promising practice for addressing population health disparities of LGBTQ+ communities in Health Care Settings. Delaware Journal of Public Health, 5(3), 12-15. doi:10.32481/djph.2019.06.005