title: Quality improvement in population health systems.
abstract: Quality improvement methods have achieved large sustainable changes in health care quality and health outcomes. Transforming health care into a population health system requires methods for innovation and improvement that can work across professions and sectors. It may be possible to replicate improvement successes in healthcare settings within and across the broader systems of social, educational, and other human services that influence health outcomes in communities. Improvement methods could translate the rhetoric of collaboration, integration and alignment into practice across the fragmented health and human service sectors in the U.S.
authors.affiliation: Department of Health Policy and Management, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, Center for Healthier Children, Families and Communities, 650 Charles Young Dr. S., Box 951772, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1772, United States. Electronic address: minkelas@ucla.edu.
authors.forename: Moira
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Inkelas
authors.affiliation: Research, and Evaluation, NICHQ (National Institute for Children's Health Quality), 30 Winter Street, 6th Floor, Boston, MA 02108, United States. Electronic address: mmcpherson@nichq.org.
authors.forename: Marianne E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: McPherson
mesh_terms: D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D008483:Medical Assistance; D000075485:Population Health; D058996:Quality Improvement; D011787:Quality of Health Care
keywords: Community system; Learning health system; Population health; Process improvement; Quality improvement