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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 2018 Burnout and Scope of Practice in New Family Physicians Go to Burnout and Scope of Practice in New Family Physicians 2022 Measuring the Value Functions of Primary Care: Physician-Level Continuity of Care Quality Measure Go to Measuring the Value Functions of Primary Care: Physician-Level Continuity of Care Quality Measure 2025 Natural Language Processing Improves Reliable Identification of COVID-19 Compared to Diagnostic Codes Alone Go to Natural Language Processing Improves Reliable Identification of COVID-19 Compared to Diagnostic Codes Alone 2019 Endoscopic Services in the United States: By Whom, for What, and Why? Go to Endoscopic Services in the United States: By Whom, for What, and Why?
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 Burnout and Scope of Practice in New Family Physicians Go to Burnout and Scope of Practice in New Family Physicians 2022 Measuring the Value Functions of Primary Care: Physician-Level Continuity of Care Quality Measure Go to Measuring the Value Functions of Primary Care: Physician-Level Continuity of Care Quality Measure 2025 Natural Language Processing Improves Reliable Identification of COVID-19 Compared to Diagnostic Codes Alone Go to Natural Language Processing Improves Reliable Identification of COVID-19 Compared to Diagnostic Codes Alone 2019 Endoscopic Services in the United States: By Whom, for What, and Why? Go to Endoscopic Services in the United States: By Whom, for What, and Why?
2018 Burnout and Scope of Practice in New Family Physicians Go to Burnout and Scope of Practice in New Family Physicians
2022 Measuring the Value Functions of Primary Care: Physician-Level Continuity of Care Quality Measure Go to Measuring the Value Functions of Primary Care: Physician-Level Continuity of Care Quality Measure
2025 Natural Language Processing Improves Reliable Identification of COVID-19 Compared to Diagnostic Codes Alone Go to Natural Language Processing Improves Reliable Identification of COVID-19 Compared to Diagnostic Codes Alone
2019 Endoscopic Services in the United States: By Whom, for What, and Why? Go to Endoscopic Services in the United States: By Whom, for What, and Why?