What is Population-based Healthcare?
Population healthcare focuses primarily on populations defined by a common need which may be a symptom such as breathlessness, a condition such as arthritis or a common characteristic such as frailty in old age, not on institutions, or specialties or technologies. Its aim is to maximise value and equity for those populations and the individuals within them.
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Glossary: Population and Personalised Care
This Glossary is about Population and Personalised Care the latter being a style of clinical and general management which always considers the patients’ perspective as the most important and is committed to increasing patient Engagement, Empowerment or Involvement, which may be regarded as synonyms. Personalised care is an element of patient centred care and is the other side of the coin from population care. This is a diffuse and fast moving field with language evolving at a rapid rate. Here are the key terms and concepts.
Technical Value in Healthcare
Technical Value in Healthcare: determined by how well resources are used within services for each individual and the whole population .
How to Determine Allocative Value in Healthcare
Allocative Value in Healthcare: determined by how assets are allocated to services for different purposes.
Ten Key Value Questions in Choosing Healthcare
For decades to come need and demand will increase faster than the resources available. Society will need to maximise value from the resources it allocates for public services including healthcare and to do this ten questions need to be addressed