title: Getting accredited for population health.
abstract: The inclusion of population health in the accreditation process is an important new direction in the Canadian healthcare system. While quality improvement is a concept familiar to most clinicians and administrators, the inclusion of population health may raise some questions: What is "population health?"; Should healthcare organizations be responsible for population health?; If so, what could they and should they be doing about it?; How would a healthcare organization achieve accreditation in population health?
mesh_terms: D000068:Accreditation; D019985:Benchmarking; D002170:Canada / Q000453:epidemiology; D006305:Health Status Indicators; D006801:Humans; D009313:National Health Programs / Q000592:standards*; D017749:Total Quality Management