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Getting Serious about Producing Health: The Ten Teams Challenge
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| In this article, Dr. Don Berwick makes the case that every US hospital and integrated health system with the means to do so should immediately establish and support Ten Teams, focused on 10 social influences on health in the region served by the organization. |
Blending Participatory Action Synthesis and Meta-Ethnography: An Innovative Approach to Evaluating Complex Community Health Transformation
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| This article describes an innovative participatory approach to evaluation of a community transformation initiative, the 100 Million Healthier Lives SCALE (Spreading Community Accelerators through Learning and Evaluation) initiative, that involved up to 18 communities across the US. |
Developing Capacity for Learning Community Systems: Experiences from the 100 Million Healthier Lives SCALE Initiative
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| This paper explores the capabilities that contribute to community transformation and the common pathways followed by communities in the 100 Million Healthier Lives SCALE (Spreading Community Accelerators through Learning and Evaluation) initiative in their transformation journeys towards a “Culture of Health.” |
Working with Community Partners to Improve Health
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| This article distills five critical takeaways to guide health care leaders in working with community partners to improve health. |
Accelerating Population Health Improvement
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| This article describes how applying improvement methods to population health improvement efforts could help close equity gaps. |
Building an Equitable System for Postsecondary Education Transition and Success
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| Based on IHI’s background in health and health care, we recognize certain similarities between the education and health care sectors, both in terms of their strengths and assets and also some systemic challenges both sectors face. The framework presented in this document focuses on both "Whole Person" and "Whole Community" to guide work to achieve student well-being and community well-being, now and in the future.
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Building Health-Creating Systems
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| In this article, IHI CEO Kedar Mate describes five key features of health-creating systems. He also suggests that health care leaders can use quality as the compass for building such systems. |
A Guide for Health Systems to Save Lives from “Deaths of Despair” and Improve Community Well-Being
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| This guide provides recommendations and guidance for health care systems to improve mental health and well-being in the communities they serve, focusing specifically on saving lives from deaths of despair (i.e., deaths due to drugs, alcohol, and suicide). |
100 Million Healthier Lives Community Transformation Resources
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| This collection of resources, developed as part of the 100 Million Healthier Lives initiative (100MLives), helps communities accelerate progress toward ensuring they are healthy and equitable places for everyone who lives there. |
100 Million Healthier Lives: Using Improvement Science to Accelerate Community Transformation
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| This collection of resources, developed as part of the 100 Million Healthier Lives initiative (100MLives), provides practical guidance on how to use improvement methods and tools in community-based settings to advance health, well-being, and equity. |
100 Million Healthier Lives Health and Well-Being Measurement Approach and Assessment Tools
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| These tools and resources, developed as part of the 100 Million Healthier Lives initiative, help individuals, organizations, and communities measure what matters most to advance health, well-being, and equity at multiple levels and across topics. |
100 Million Healthier Lives Engaging People with Lived Experience Tools
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| This collection of resources, developed as part of the 100 Million Healthier Lives initiative, provides key information and tools to support communities and organizations to authentically engage people with lived experience in co-design and implementation efforts. |
100 Million Healthier Lives Advancing Equity Tools
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| These tools and resources, developed as part of the 100 Million Healthier Lives initiative, support communities' efforts to prioritize equity in an authentic and deep way and address racism as a determinant of health as they work toward achieving improvements in health and well-being. |
Well-Being in the Nation: A Living Library of Measures to Drive Multi-Sector Population Health Improvement and Address Social Determinants
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| This article describes the approach led by 100 Million Healthier Lives, a collaboration of partners across sectors convened by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, to support the measurement of health and well-being at local, state, and national levels. |
Thriving Together: A Springboard for Equitable Recovery and Resilience in Communities across America
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| This guide highlights numerous actions that communities, organizations, businesses, governments, and funders can take in the wake of COVID-19 and other related threats to the US — to create the vital conditions that all people and places need to thrive. |
The Moral Determinants of Health
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| Six items are proposed as an "agenda for action" that physicians, nurses, and US health care institutions could help lead as a shared endeavor for securing the health of communities. |
WIHI: Which Way Is North? Setting Your Compass for Population Health
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| February 13, 2020 | Actions to improve population health are common among health systems, but how can they ensure lasting, positive changes? Tune in to learn more about the Pathways to Population Health Compass. |
WIHI: Addiction Treatment Demystified: Proven, Practical Steps for Complex Care
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| June 21, 2018 | The burgeoning field of “complex care” is identifying new interventions to better address a broad set of needs, including treatment for addiction. |
WIHI: Strategic Pathways to Population Health
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| June 7, 2018 | Health systems face numerous challenges in their efforts to improve population health. What makes a comprehensive strategy, and where do health care systems start? |
Integrating Behavioral Health in the Emergency Department and Upstream
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| This IHI Innovation Report discusses barriers to integrating behavioral health in the ED, and presents five drivers (emerging from six key themes from existing approaches) that form the building blocks of a theory of change for making improvements in this area. |
Creating Age-Friendly Health Systems: How to Meet the Needs of a Growing Population of Older Adults
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| This article explains an emerging care model for older adults focused on the “4Ms” of Age-Friendly Health Systems — What Matters, Mobility, Medications, and the Mentation of older adults — that is in the testing phase at five health systems, as part of the Creating Age-Friendly Health Systems initiative led by IHI. |
Postal Service “Call & Check Visits” for Isolated, Frail Elderly in the Community
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| This case study from the IHI/Commonwealth Fund International Program for US Health Care System Innovation describes the "Call & Check Visits” program developed by Jersey Post in Jersey, British Channel Islands, in which postal service workers check on isolated, frail elderly residents in the community, deliver prescription refills, remind clients of upcoming medical visits, and ask about their health and social needs. |
The Age-Friendly Health System Imperative
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| The article gives an overview of how five early-adopter US health systems — working in partnership with IHI and The John A. Hartford Foundation as part of the Creating Age-Friendly Health Systems initiative — are testing prototype models for age-friendly care using continuous improvement efforts to streamline and enhance new approaches to geriatric care. |
Creating Age-Friendly Health Systems: A Vision for Better Care of Older Adults
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| This article describes the background, evidence-based changes, and testing, scale-up, and spread strategy that are part of the design of the Creating Age-Friendly Health Systems initiative to improve care for older adults. |
WIHI: How to Fail Forward (Quickly) on the Road to Population Health
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| June 29, 2017 | Learning from failure is an important part of the quality improvement process in health care. Groups focused on improving the health of communities are also discovering the value of "failing forward;" leveraging the learning from failure to accelerate progress. |
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