Participation in Health Services/Population Health Research in U.S. Departments of Medicine
Health services research, inclusive of population health, is broadly defined as “a multidisciplinary field of inquiry, both basic and applied, that examines access to, and the use, costs, quality, delivery, organization, financing, and outcomes of healthcare services to produce new knowledge about the structure, processes, and effects of health services for individuals and po pulations,” (1). These fields help to link together medicine and public health with health care delivery and serving the community.
Source: The American Journal of Medicine - Category: General Medicine Authors: Jill S. Barnholtz-Sloan, Robert Salata, Mone Zaidi, Laura A. Petersen, Michael Kisielewski, Kristin Waite, Robert F. Todd Tags: AAIM Perspectives Source Type: research