Bridges to Health and Healthcare: New solutions for improving access and services – Book

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Bridges to Health and Healthcare: New solutions for improving access and services provides a fresh opportunity to improve health outcomes. Healthcare providers will learn to:

– Engage and better serve individuals across the economic spectrum
– Reduce costs while achieving more successful patient outcomes
– Communicate complex medical information more clearly
– Design services to help people from a variety of backgrounds and circumstances
– Increase effectiveness within successful, patient-centered care initiatives

Public health organizations, communities, and governments will learn to:

– Reduce the health gap and improve outcomes for all, especially those at risk
– Build sustainable neighborhoods and communities coordinated with all stakeholders
– Engage all stakeholders in planning new practices for healthier communities
– Increase community social capital and cohesion linked to improved population health
– Provide collective impact models to drive population research at the community level