The government website is designed to help improve the lives of all Americans.
Population health is a relatively new term for most people, even with the healthcare community.
According to David Kindig and Greg Stoddart in their March 2003 article “What is Population Health?” in the American Journal of Public Health, the term is defined as “the health outcomes of a group of individuals, including the distribution of such outcomes within the group.”
According to Kingsley Akarowhe, one of the field’s leading experts:
“The working definition of population health is expressed thus: population health is an art, process, science, and a product of enhancing the health condition of a specific number of people within a given geographical area.”
Healthypeople.gov is a governmental website devoted to providing data to help researchers, providers, and the public improve the lives of all Americans.
Healthy People provides science-based, 10-year national objectives for improving the health of all Americans. For three decades, Healthy People has established benchmarks and monitored progress over time in order to:
Healthypeople.gov’s current 10-year initiative is called Healthy People 2020.
Healthy People 2020 strives to:
Healthpeople.gov allows all users to select data from 40 different topic areas and then select data from hundreds of different databases.
As a sample, I pulled data on new cases of diabetes in the U.S., collected by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for people 18 to 84 years old:
If you work in the healthcare field or simply have an interest in healthcare and staying healthy, I hope you get a chance to look at this wonderful site.
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