Prevention and Population Health
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Project Status: Completed
Prevention and Population Health
The Opportunity
Population health is the collective well-being and functional ability of an identified group of people to experience their full capabilities. It has multiple environmental, behavioral, social, and biological determinants. Population health is generally understood as a systems-level concept that describes health outcomes of a group of individuals that are measured through a broad spectrum of public health, clinical care, socioeconomic, and physical environmental determinants that function interdependently and cumulatively. Population health not only focuses on disease and illness across multiple sectors, but also on health and well-being, prevention, and health promotion, as well as disparities in such outcomes and improvement activities within a group and/or between groups. Identifying valid and reliable measures of performance across these multiple sectors can be challenging. Data collection, health assessments at individual and aggregate levels, payment structures, quality of patient care, public health interventions, and other components present challenges in shaping widespread, standardized implementation of population health measures. Overcoming these challenges is critical to any strategy to understand and improve the health of populations.
NQF Related Work
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For more information, please contact populationhealth@qualityforum.org.
CMS UPDATE: Public commenting of quality measures is temporarily unavailable, as NQF will no longer serve as the consensus-based entity for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) as of March 26, 2023.
NQF is working with CMS and the successor contractor to make a smooth transition of the endorsement and maintenance work, which will include further communication to stakeholders regarding this body of work, including public commenting for the fall 2022 measures, after March 26. Thank you for your patience and understanding.
Effective March 27, 2023, NQF is no longer the contracted consensus-based entity (CBE) for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Battelle will serve as the CMS CBE for the endorsement & maintenance of quality performance measures. Materials posted to this site prior to the fall 2022 measure endorsement cycle will continue to be available to the public. However, any materials for the fall 2022 cycle and beyond can be found on the Battelle Partnership for Quality Measurement (PQM) website. Click here https://p4qm.org/ for more information.
