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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. Read More ABFM Research Read all 2018 Rural Family Physicians Have a Broader Scope of Practice Than Urban Family Physicians Go to Rural Family Physicians Have a Broader Scope of Practice Than Urban Family Physicians 2024 Primary Care Physicians’ Satisfaction With Interoperable Health Information Technology Go to Primary Care Physicians’ Satisfaction With Interoperable Health Information Technology 2014 Electronic health record functionality needed to better support primary care Go to Electronic health record functionality needed to better support primary care 2018 Rural Family Physicians in Patient Centered Medical Homes Have a Broader Scope of Practice Go to Rural Family Physicians in Patient Centered Medical Homes Have a Broader Scope of Practice
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 2018 Rural Family Physicians Have a Broader Scope of Practice Than Urban Family Physicians Go to Rural Family Physicians Have a Broader Scope of Practice Than Urban Family Physicians 2024 Primary Care Physicians’ Satisfaction With Interoperable Health Information Technology Go to Primary Care Physicians’ Satisfaction With Interoperable Health Information Technology 2014 Electronic health record functionality needed to better support primary care Go to Electronic health record functionality needed to better support primary care 2018 Rural Family Physicians in Patient Centered Medical Homes Have a Broader Scope of Practice Go to Rural Family Physicians in Patient Centered Medical Homes Have a Broader Scope of Practice
2018 Rural Family Physicians Have a Broader Scope of Practice Than Urban Family Physicians Go to Rural Family Physicians Have a Broader Scope of Practice Than Urban Family Physicians
2024 Primary Care Physicians’ Satisfaction With Interoperable Health Information Technology Go to Primary Care Physicians’ Satisfaction With Interoperable Health Information Technology
2014 Electronic health record functionality needed to better support primary care Go to Electronic health record functionality needed to better support primary care
2018 Rural Family Physicians in Patient Centered Medical Homes Have a Broader Scope of Practice Go to Rural Family Physicians in Patient Centered Medical Homes Have a Broader Scope of Practice
