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Population Health and Public Health: Overview

Discover Advocate Health - Midwest Library books, journals and other resources on population health and public health

Purpose of this Guide

This guide is a starting point to discover Advocate Health - Midwest Library resources for population health and public health. This guide also features library resources for a few topics of interest in population and public health: health disparities, motivational interviewing, and social determinants/drivers of health.

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What is Population Health and Public Health?

Population health has been defined as the health outcomes of a group of individuals, including the distribution of such outcomes within the group. These populations can be based on geographic regions such as nations or communities, but also can be other groups, such as employees or ethnic groups. Source: What is Population Health? (David Kindig, MD, PhD and Greg Stoddart, PhD are pioneers in population health)

Public health is the branch of medicine concerned with improving the health of people and their communities by promoting healthy lifestyles and disease and injury prevention. Public health often addresses larger communities, including those determined not by geography but by race, gender, immigration status, disability level, or other factors. Source: Public Health

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