title: Focusing on the Common Problem of Improving Population Health.
abstract: To move the dial and drive the factors that impact 70% of health outcomes, we need a health and social services system that has the capacity and flexibility to address social determinants, and we need to better engage individuals in taking ownership of the factors they can control. The foundational elements that will then have the greatest impact on improving North Carolina's population health-when integrated-are Medicaid policy and metrics, social determinants, whole-person-centered models of care, and workforce development.
authors.affiliation: former secretary, North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Raleigh, North Carolina Rick.Brajer@dhhs.nc.gov.
authors.forename: Rick
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Brajer
mesh_terms: D018672:Community Health Planning; D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006801:Humans; D009657:North Carolina; D064890:Social Determinants of Health