“One of the most popular and exciting terms in healthcare, “population health,” is used liberally and frequently. In its truest form, population health refers to the health of an entire population in a geographic area and the social determinants that influence the population’s wellbeing. These include education, crime, housing and employment, among other factors that might fall outside the realm of a hospital or physician office. The problem is healthcare is using this term so wildly that population health runs the risk of becoming healthcare-specific jargon instead of a policy concept shared between social institutions, public health agencies and policymakers.”
