This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront series, Accountable Care for Population Health, featuring analysis and discussion of how to understand, design, support, and measure ...

Use of the Psychiatric Collaborative Care Model (CoCM) increased 26-fold nationally among commercially insured patients between 2018 and 2024, yet access to the evidence-based mental health care model ...

Providing high-quality primary care is key to improving health care in the United States. The Affordable Care Act sharpened the emerging focus on primary care as a critical lever to use in improving ...

Primary care is crucial for improving health outcomes and lowering overall healthcare costs. According to a 2021 report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, “People in ...

In 1978, the Declaration of Alma-Ata at the International Conference on Primary Health Care launched primary health care as a route to better health for all. The ambition was bold. The Declaration of ...

Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. In recognition of this potential, the Health Resources and Services Administration ...

Participants from the Best Practices Innovation Collaborative of the Institute of Medicine Roundtable on Value & Science-Driven Health Care have identified five core principles of effective team-based ...

Staying healthy is more than just going to the doctor when you’re sick. It’s about having a health care team that not only addresses your concerns and illnesses but also takes a proactive approach to ...

In the busy-ness of everyday life, it’s easy to put our own health on the back burner. For many of us, health care becomes something we think about only when ...