Primary Care care provided by clinicians trained and skilled in first contact and continuing
care for people with undiagnosed signs, symptoms, or concerns. Not limited by
problem origin, organ system, or diagnosis.
Higher quality of care is NOT more expen
History and Evolution of
Population Health
August 28, 2014
1
Todays Agenda
From infectious disease epidemiology to chronic
disease management:
History and evolution of pop health
Epidemiologic transition
Demographic transition
Policy influence
2
Evolution
Measuring Life Expectancy &
Healthy Life Expectancy
September 16, 2014
Cornell Global Health Program
General Information Session
Interested in global health?
Come to the Global Health Programs General
Info Session to learn about the minor,
requirements, F
Statistical Primer
(aka A Little More Background Stuff)
September 2, 2014
Todays Agenda
Pre-class assignment: Watch 6 minute IHI
video on Static vs. Dynamic data
presentation!
Benchmarking and trends
Defining numerators and denominators
Data sources
Measuring Disease Occurrence:
Incidence, Prevalence, Frequency &
Intensity
September 4, 2014
Extra Credit
Opportunity
Agenda
Measuring disease occurrence (morbidity)
Two key measures of morbidity: Incidence and prevalence
Cumulative incidence
Point pr
Video Discussion Questions
In Sickness and in Wealth
September 18, 2014
Come prepared to talk!
Overall Observation Questions
What would you say is the overall take away
from the film?
What were your overall thoughts about the
film?
What parts/concepts
Measuring Health and Well-being
September 11, 2014
Agenda
Finish mortality measures (from 9/9)
Measuring health & well-being
Self-rated health (SRH)
HRQOL
Functional status and disability (ADLs & IADLs)
Healthy Days (physical & mental)
Why measure h
SES and Health: Income,
Education, & Employment
September 23, 2014
Agenda
ALA #1 is due! (Hard copy, beginning of class)
Education and health
Employment and health
Measuring SES
Which path articulates the social causation hypothesis?
Which path articulate
Welcome!
PAM 3280
Introduction to Population Health
Julie Carmalt, Ph.D.
TAs: Anna Choi, Alyssa Haley, Shanda Kumar,
Priyanka Lalwani, Anna Zhu
Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the
most shocking and inhumane.
-Dr. Martin Luther
Place and Health
September 25, 2014
Agenda
Video discussion of Place Matters (to be watched
BEFORE CLASS)
Social and built environment
Cycle of disinvestment
Poverty tax
Food desert definition
Red lining
Community activism and protective factors
D
30-Day Readmission Reduction Project Hospital Readmission Following PCI
Part 1: Calculating All-Cause 30-Day Readmission
The data set sample size otherwise stated as the original denominator is 5,703 patients
who were admitted at a rural hospital and rece
Most common cause of cancer death = lung cancer (1.59 million deaths in 2012) Cancers of
the liver, stomach, colorectal, breast, and oesophagus, each caused less than half the deaths
caused by lung cancer http:/www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs297/en/
Final Review V2
3 Observational Study Design
- COHORT: RR or OR; before or after; exposed vs. unexposed
- CASE-CONTROL: OR; after; frequency
- CROSS-SECTIONAL: prevalence ratio; after; prevalence
CANNOT INFER CAUSATION first two can only address SOME conf
NOTES
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50% of the US population has at least 1 chronic disease
70% of the leading causes of death in the US are preventable
FALSE: the US spends more on healthcare than any other nation because the US
leads the world on key population health indicators
Notes
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More social connections = avoidance of risk/disease
Access to green spaces follows health-wealth trend
Complete Streets: Designed and operated to enable safe access for all users
(pedestrians, bicyclists, motorists, transit riders) of all ages and
Paul Suh
Thursday, December 1
PAM 3280, Carmalt
Calculating All-Cause 30-Day Readmission
The dataset sample size was originally 5,703 patients, but 81 were excluded from that
original value due to death prior to discharge. As a result, the number of patie
Primary Care = care provided by clinicians trained and skilled in first contact and continuing
care for people with undiagnosed signs, symptoms, or concerns. Not limited by
problem origin, organ system, or diagnosis
IHI Triple Aim
1) Quality
2) Health
3)
DR. ANNE JONES
- Primary Care: care provided by clinicians trained and skilled in first contact and
continuing care for people with undiagnosed signs, symptoms, or concerns. Not
limited by problem origin, organ system, or diagnosis.
- Higher quality of ca
Measuring Mortality &
Early Mortality
September 9, 2014
Announcements
ALA #1 will be posted to Blackboard by
midnight 9/11/14
Extra credit opportunities are now posted on
Blackboard (working Google Doc)
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