Background Policymakers in many countries promote collaboration between health care
organizations and other sectors as a route to improving population health. Local …

Abstract Background Annually since 2010, the University of Wisconsin Population Health
Institute and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation have produced the County Health …

The National Association of School Nurses (NASN) developed the Framework for 21st
Century School Nursing Practice to reflect current school nurse practice. The Framework of …

Background In 2014, the all-cause age-adjusted death rate in the United States reached a
historic low of 724.6 per 100,000 population (1). However, mortality in rural …

We estimate the effect of current location on elderly mortality by analyzing outcomes of
movers in the Medicare population. We control for movers' origin locations as well as a rich …

Beyond the public health research, from a more commonsense perspective, healthy
communities are easy to recognize: they are, by and large, the places where people want to …

Shaping Neighbourhoods is unique in combining all aspects of the spatial planning of
neighbourhoods and towns whilst emphasising positive outcomes for people's health and …

Objective: Few studies targeting obesity in serious mental illness have reported clinically
significant risk reduction, and none have been replicated in community settings or …

Addressing nonmedical needs—such as the need for housing—is critical to advancing
population health, improving the quality of care, and lowering the costs of care. Accountable …

Objectives: In the US, there is growing recognition that social factors (eg, financial hardship,
food insecurity, housing instability) influence individual and population health. This has led …