title: Population health--a new discipline.
abstract: A new discipline--population health--has emerged with the potential to profoundly impact the U.S. health care system. Multiple forces stimulating the new population health concept include: (1) the increasing dominance of managed care and critical scrutiny of its development; (2) the continued refinement of clinical effectiveness and outcomes assessment research; (3) increasing public policy emphasis on cost-effectiveness accountability for health care services; and (4) a new focus on the importance of collaboration between the medicine and public health enterprises in this country. The need for sophisticated analysis of population health determinants has never been greater in history. New programs, like the University of Wisconsin-Madison's interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Population Health, address the need for analysis, dissemination, and application of information about the many factors affecting the health of populations.
authors.affiliation: University of Wisconsin-Madison Medical School, USA.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Noren
mesh_terms: D018672:Community Health Planning / Q000379:methods*; D003479:Curriculum; D004503:Education, Medical, Graduate; D006291:Health Policy; D006305:Health Status Indicators; D006801:Humans; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D011159:Population Surveillance; D011634:Public Health / Q000193:education*; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology