title: Primary care NPs: Leaders in population health.
abstract: A 2012 Institute of Medicine report calls primary and public healthcare workers to action, tasking them with working together to improve population health outcomes. A Practical Playbook released in 2014 enables this public health/primary care integration. Primary care NPs are in an excellent position to lead the charge and make this integration happen.
authors.affiliation: Kathryn D. Swartwout is an assistant professor and FNP program director at Rush University, Chicago, Ill., and an FNP at NorthShore University HealthSystem, Evanston, Ill.
authors.forename: Kathryn D
authors.initials: KD
authors.lastname: Swartwout
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007857:Leadership; D000075485:Population Health; D011320:Primary Health Care; D011634:Public Health