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Home Research Research Library How Other Countries Use Deprivation Indices-And Why The United States Desperately Needs One How Other Countries Use Deprivation Indices-And Why The United States Desperately Needs One 2016 Author(s) Phillips, Robert L, Liaw, Winston R, Crampton, P, Exeter, D J, Bazemore, Andrew W, Vickery, K D, Petterson, Stephen M, and Carrozza, Mark A Topic(s) Role of Primary Care, and Achieving Health System Goals Keyword(s) Payment, and Population Health Volume Health Affairs Source Health Affairs Integrating public health and medicine to address social determinants of health is essential to achieving the Triple Aim of lower costs, improved care, and population health. There is intense interest in the United States in using social determinants of health to direct clinical and community health interventions, and to adjust quality measures and payments. The United Kingdom and New Zealand use data representing aspects of material and social deprivation from their censuses or from administrative data sets to construct indices designed to measure socioeconomic variation across communities, assess community needs, inform research, adjust clinical funding, allocate community resources, and determine policy impact. Indices provide these countries with comparable data and serve as a universal language and tool set to define organizing principles for population health. In this article we examine how these countries develop, validate, and operationalize their indices; explore their use in policy; and propose the development of a similar deprivation index for the United States. ABFM Research Read all 2020 Team Configurations, Efficiency, and Family Physician Burnout Go to Team Configurations, Efficiency, and Family Physician Burnout 2021 A Cross-Sectional Study of Factors Associated With Pediatric Scope of Care in Family Medicine Go to A Cross-Sectional Study of Factors Associated With Pediatric Scope of Care in Family Medicine 2018 Higher Primary Care Physician Continuity is Associated With Lower Costs and Hospitalizations Go to Higher Primary Care Physician Continuity is Associated With Lower Costs and Hospitalizations 2023 Characteristics of Family Physicians Who Work in Integrated Behavioral Health Practice Settings Go to Characteristics of Family Physicians Who Work in Integrated Behavioral Health Practice Settings
Author(s) Phillips, Robert L, Liaw, Winston R, Crampton, P, Exeter, D J, Bazemore, Andrew W, Vickery, K D, Petterson, Stephen M, and Carrozza, Mark A Topic(s) Role of Primary Care, and Achieving Health System Goals Keyword(s) Payment, and Population Health Volume Health Affairs Source Health Affairs
ABFM Research Read all 2020 Team Configurations, Efficiency, and Family Physician Burnout Go to Team Configurations, Efficiency, and Family Physician Burnout 2021 A Cross-Sectional Study of Factors Associated With Pediatric Scope of Care in Family Medicine Go to A Cross-Sectional Study of Factors Associated With Pediatric Scope of Care in Family Medicine 2018 Higher Primary Care Physician Continuity is Associated With Lower Costs and Hospitalizations Go to Higher Primary Care Physician Continuity is Associated With Lower Costs and Hospitalizations 2023 Characteristics of Family Physicians Who Work in Integrated Behavioral Health Practice Settings Go to Characteristics of Family Physicians Who Work in Integrated Behavioral Health Practice Settings
2020 Team Configurations, Efficiency, and Family Physician Burnout Go to Team Configurations, Efficiency, and Family Physician Burnout
2021 A Cross-Sectional Study of Factors Associated With Pediatric Scope of Care in Family Medicine Go to A Cross-Sectional Study of Factors Associated With Pediatric Scope of Care in Family Medicine
2018 Higher Primary Care Physician Continuity is Associated With Lower Costs and Hospitalizations Go to Higher Primary Care Physician Continuity is Associated With Lower Costs and Hospitalizations
2023 Characteristics of Family Physicians Who Work in Integrated Behavioral Health Practice Settings Go to Characteristics of Family Physicians Who Work in Integrated Behavioral Health Practice Settings
