According to the CDC, Population Health is, “an interdisciplinary, customizable approach that allows health departments to connect practice to policy for change to happen locally. This approach utilizes non-traditional partnerships among different sectors of the community – public health, industry, academia, health care, local government entities, etc. – to achieve positive health outcomes. Population health brings significant health concerns into focus and addresses ways that resources can be allocated to overcome the problems that drive poor health conditions in specific populations.

According to the CDC, “Public health works to protect and improve the health of communities through policy recommendations, health education and outreach, and research for disease detection and injury prevention. It can be defined as what “we as a society do collectively to assure the conditions in which people can be healthy”. On the other hand, population health provides “an opportunity for health care systems, agencies and organizations to work together in order to improve the health outcomes of the communities they serve.”

CRHC’s Pop Health Department is working with different groups of people to increase access to healthcare resources and available options to ensure a healthier you! A few of those reasons might be to Disease Management, assistance with government programs, the organization and set up of our health fairs or lab draws, to name a few.