Population Health: Creating a Culture of Wellness

by David Nash, Raymond J. Fabius, Alexis Skoufalos

Practicing population based care is a central focus of the Affordable Care Act and a key component of implementing health reform. Wellness and Prevention, Accountable Care Organizations, Patient Centered Medical Homes, Comparative Effectiveness Research, and Patient Engagement have become common terms in the healthcare lexicon.

Aimed at students and practitioners in health care settings, the Second Edition of Population Health: Creating a Culture of Wellness, conveys the key concepts of concepts of population health management and strategies for creating a culture of health and wellness in the context of health care reform.

Beginning with a new opening chapter, entitled, “Building Cultures of Health and Wellness”, the Second Edition takes a comprehensive, forward-looking approach to population health with an emphasis on creating a culture of wellness. The revised text takes into consideration the Affordable Care Act and its substantial impact on how health science is taught, how health care is delivered and how health care services are compensated in the United States.

Key Features:

- Study and discussion questions are provided at the conclusion of each chapter to highlight key learning objectives and readings.
- Case studies highlight real world applications of concepts and strategies, and links to web sites provide additional opportunities for expanding knowledge.
- Each chapter can stand alone to highlight key population health issues and provide strategies to address them, allowing educators to choose specific chapters or sections that meet the learning objectives of the course.

493 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 16, 2010

Reviews

[Samantha · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book started off really good but as it got into more complex inner workings of the healthcare systems, methods, and planning and such it started to get really scrambled. It felt very jumbled and repetitive but not helpful. The author writes about certain topics that someone with no medical or clinical background could not understand because it is not explained enough or in layman. I told my husband many times that I was reading gobblity gook with some of the chapters. But some of the chapters are great and spread out very well. I do appreciate that the chapters are excruciating long.

[Dmreichle · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is another book that I listened to on my commute for my class. It is a good introduction to the basics of Population health, and I found it interesting for the most part. I'm not sure I agree with all the concepts, however, but it did provide some new ideas.

[Nathan Fleming · Rating 5 out of 5]

Nash's textbook explains the fundamentals of a culture of wellness. His thinking has influenced the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. This is a primary text for students interested in understanding the academic discipline of population health.