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October 19, 2012 | New Public Health Post
In a new interview with Ramona Trovato, Deputy Assistant Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), NewPublicHealth continues its conversation series about the National Prevention Strategy. The strategy was released last year by Sur ...
September 1, 2010 | Journal Article
This article discusses pay-for-performance. It considers social marketing as a well-developed managerial paradigm that can contribute to the key components of pay-for-performance as it, in turn, contributes to improving population health.
September 1, 2010 | Journal Article
This article summarizes accountability, performance metrics, and reward systems in education for possible use in health care.
September 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Articles in this issue of Preventing Chronic Disease provide a number of perspectives relating to how incentives might work for population health improvement.
September 1, 2010 | Journal Article
This article considers two related themes that address population health outcomes and the contributions to those outcomes by time, place, individual behaviors and choices, and activities of various social sectors.
September 13, 2012 | New Public Health Post
GUEST POST by Lisa Junker, CAE, director of communications for the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) At the opening session of the ASTHO Annual Meeting in Austin, Paul Wallace, vice president of The Lewin Group, pointed t ...
September 12, 2012 | New Public Health Post
James S. Marks, MD, Senior Vice President of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, recently spoke on a keynote panel at the annual ASTHO meeting in Austin, Texas, on making the case for prevention. NewPublicHealth spoke with Dr. Marks about the great ...
January 3, 2011 | Book/Issue Brief
This issue of To Improve Health and Health Care, written by leading health journalists, experts from universities and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, provides an in-depth look into the Foundation's work improving the health and health care of the nation's most vulnerable populations.
August 22, 2012 | New Public Health Post
Strategic partnerships to help extend the reach and resources needed to improve population health, was a focus of recent annual conferences, including the AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting and the 2012 annual conference of the National Associati ...
August 21, 2012 | New Public Health Post
Faces of Public Health is a recurring editorial series on NewPublicHealth featuring individuals working on the front lines of public health and helping keep people healthy and safe. The CDC Foundation, established by Congress in 1995, connects the C ...