Bridges to Health and Healthcare

New Solutions to Improving Access and Services

By: Ruby K. Payne, Terie Dreussi-Smith, Lucy Shaw MBA, Jan Young DNSc

Narrated by: Thomas Blair

Bridges to Health and Healthcare: New Solutions for Improving Access and Services provides a fresh opportunity to improve health outcomes. Healthcare providers will learn to:

• Engage and better serve individuals across the economic spectrum
• Reduce costs while achieving more successful patient outcomes
• Communicate complex medical information more clearly
• Design services to account for increasing diversity within communities
• Increase effectiveness within successful, patient-centered care initiatives

Public health organizations, communities, and governments will learn to:

• Reduce the health gap and improve outcomes for all, especially those at risk
• Build sustainable neighborhoods and communities coordinated with all stakeholders
• Engage all stakeholders in planning new practices for healthier communities
• Increase community social capital and cohesion linked to improved population health
• Provide collective impact models to drive population research at the community level

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