Dave discusses the evolution of his definition of population health to his most cited 2003 paper and clarifies ongoing confusion with the terms “public health” and “population health management”.
References:
Kindig D, Stoddart G. 2003. What is Population Health? Am J of Public Health 93(3): 380-383.
Kindig D. 2015. What Are We Talking About When We Talk About Population Health? Health Affairs Blog April 6. 1377/forefront.20150406.046151
Podcast #2 The Story Behind the Book Purchasing Population Health
Evans and Stoddart 1990 Field Model – Used with permission Evans RG, Stoddart GL. 1990. Producing Health, Consuming Health Care. Soc Sci Med 31(12):1347-1363.
Dave explores with Sanne the seminal, Canadian influence and how his sabbatical intellectual paralysis in York England almost resulted in no book. He reminds us of the only italicized sentence in the seminal Evans and Stoddart 1990 paper: “A society that spends so much on health care that it cannot or will not spend adequately on other health enhancing activities may actually be reducing the health of its population.”
Kindig DA. 1997. Purchasing Population Health: Paying for Results TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1. Purchasing Population Health: A Vision
Chapter 2. Taking Our Temperature: How Healthy Are We?
Chapter 3. The High Cost of Health Care: Are We Getting the Most for Our Money?
Chapter 4. Measuring Health Outcomes
Chapter 5. The Multiple Determinants of Health
Chapter 6. Can Rationing Be Rational? Balancing the Determinants of Health
Chapter 7. Managing Boundaries
Chapter 8. Different Populations, Different Needs?
Chapter 9. Making It Happen
Chapter 10. The Case for Action, The Price of Inertia
References for the Podcast:
1. Evans RG, Stoddart GL. 1990. Producing Health, Consuming Health Care. Soc Sci Med 31(12):1347-1363.
2. Evans RG, Barer ML, Marmor TR, editors. 1994. Why Are Some People Healthy and Others Not? The Determinants of Health of Populations. New York: Aldine de Gruyter.
3. Kindig DA. 1997. Purchasing Population Health: Paying for Results. University of Michigan Press: Ann Arbor, MI.
Population Health: the Unfinished Journey with David Kindig
Episode 1: Once Upon A Time
Dave discusses his South Bronx roots of seeing “health” vs only healthcare, and how an unfavorable, chance encounter with the Chair of Pediatrics changed his career forever.
References:
Kindig DA. 1992. The Health Care System Should Produce Health. On Wisconsin September/October. p.25.
Evans RG, Stoddart GL. 1990. Producing Health, Consuming Health Care. Soc Sci Med 31(12):1347-1363.
We thank the staff of IAPHS for the production and support of this podcast.
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Closing off our “Meet our Hosts” series we’re joined by Mike Esposito, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Washington University in St Louis. Join us as we learn about his path from Missouri-to-Seattle and back, why he picked Sociology as a field and his brief dabble with political sociology, and growing up as a chess prodigy.
We continue our “Meet our Hosts” series with co-host Aresha Martinez-Cardoso, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Health Science at the University of Chicago. Aresha gives us insight into how her work has been inspired by her own life growing up in immigrant communities in California and reflects on the early wins and challenges of her career so far. We also get to learn about her attempts at getting on reality TV.
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Across the country, workers have become increasingly disengaged and dissatisfied with their work, searching for other job opportunities or a break from work altogether in what economists are calling “The Great Resignation.” At the same time, workplaces have attempted to enhance worker wellbeing during the pandemic and expand DEI efforts. In today’s episode we’re joined by work and diversity scholar Courtney McCluney, an assistant professor of Organizational Behavior in the ILR School at Cornell University, to chat about her trajectory of research on work, where employers are succeeding and failing their workers, and how researchers can effectively share their research insights in the private space.
Space holds special importance in population health. Critical theories of inequity center geographies — from broad nation-states to more intimate neighborhood environments — as principal organizers of health and well-being. Still, despite a widespread understanding that “place matters” in health research, geospatial techniques for clarifying these relations are less widely used. In this episode of Sick Individuals/Sick Populations, we welcome on two leading geospatial scientists — Drs. Marynia Kolak and Peter Chen — for a timely chat on the importance of place for health (including how this relationship has accelerated recently, in face of COVID-19 and environmental harms), as well as their use of and efforts to democratize geospatial techniques for health research.
