Towards a Unified Taxonomy of Health Indicators: Academic Health Centers and Communities Working Together to Improve Population Health

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• Alternative Title:
  Acad Med
• Personal Author:
  Aguilar-Gaxiola, Sergio ; Ahmed, Syed ; Franco, Zeno ; Kissack, Anne ; Gabriel, Davera ; Hurd, Thelma ; Ziegahn, Linda ; Bates, Nancy J. ; Calhoun, Karen ; Carter-Edwards, Lori ; Corbie-Smith, Giselle ; Eder, Milton “Mickey” ; Ferrans, Carol ; Hacker, Karen ; Rumala, Bernice B. ; Strelnick, A. Hal ; Wallerstein, Nina
• Description:
  The Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA) program represents a significant public investment. To realize its major goal of improving the public's health and reducing health disparities, the CTSA Consortium's Community Engagement Key Function Committee has undertaken the challenge of developing a taxonomy of community health indicators. The objective is to initiate a unified approach for monitoring progress in improving population health outcomes. Such outcomes include, importantly, the interests and priorities of community stakeholders, plus the multiple, overlapping interests of universities and of the public health and health care professions involved in the development and use of local health care indicators.The emerging taxonomy of community health indicators that the authors propose supports alignment of CTSA activities and facilitates comparative effectiveness research across CTSAs, thereby improving the health of communities and reducing health disparities. The proposed taxonomy starts at the broadest level, determinants of health; subsequently moves to more finite categories of community health indicators; and, finally, addresses specific quantifiable measures. To illustrate the taxonomy's application, the authors have synthesized 21 health indicator projects from the literature and categorized them into international, national, or local/special jurisdictions. They furthered categorized the projects within the taxonomy by ranking indicators with the greatest representation among projects and by ranking the frequency of specific measures. They intend for the taxonomy to provide common metrics for measuring changes to population health and, thus, extend the utility of the CTSA Community Engagement Logic Model. The input of community partners will ultimately improve population health.
• Subjects:
  Academic Medical Centers Community Health Centers Female Health Status Health Status Indicators Humans Interdisciplinary Communication Male Public Health Quality Of Health Care United States

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• Source:
  Acad Med. 89(4):564-572
• Pubmed ID:
  24556775
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC4124598
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  UL1 TR000043/TR/NCATS NIH HHSUnited States/ ; UL1 RR025750/RR/NCRR NIH HHSUnited States/ ; UL1 RR024999/RR/NCRR NIH HHSUnited States/ ; UL1TR000433/TR/NCATS NIH HHSUnited States/ ; UL1 TR001449/TR/NCATS NIH HHSUnited States/ ; P20 MD000198/MD/NIMHD NIH HHSUnited States/ ; UL1RR025767/RR/NCRR NIH HHSUnited States/ ; UL1 TR000050/TR/NCATS NIH HHSUnited States/ ; UL1 TR001073/TR/NCATS NIH HHSUnited States/ ; UL1 RR031977/RR/NCRR NIH HHSUnited States/ ; 3UL1RR025750-05/RR/NCRR NIH HHSUnited States/ ; UL1 TR001120/TR/NCATS NIH HHSUnited States/ ; UL1RR024999/RR/NCRR NIH HHSUnited States/ ; K24 HL105493/HL/NHLBI NIH HHSUnited States/ ; UL1 RR024986/RR/NCRR NIH HHSUnited States/ ; UL1 TR000433/TR/NCATS NIH HHSUnited States/ ; U48 DP001944/DP/NCCDPHP CDC HHSUnited States/ ; P30 AG043097/AG/NIA NIH HHSUnited States/ ; UL1TR000050/TR/NCATS NIH HHSUnited States/ ; RC4 RR031358/RR/NCRR NIH HHSUnited States/ ; P20 MD004811/MD/NIMHD NIH HHSUnited States/ ; UL1RR031977/RR/NCRR NIH HHSUnited States/ ; U48DP001944/ACL/ACL HHSUnited States/ ; UL1 TR001111/TR/NCATS NIH HHSUnited States/ ; 8UL1TR000170-05/TR/NCATS NIH HHSUnited States/ ; 8UL1TR000055/TR/NCATS NIH HHSUnited States/ ; K24 HL 105493/HL/NHLBI NIH HHSUnited States/ ; P20MD004811/MD/NIMHD NIH HHSUnited States/ ; UL1TR000083/TR/NCATS NIH HHSUnited States/ ; P60 MD003424/MD/NIMHD NIH HHSUnited States/ ; UL1 RR025767/RR/NCRR NIH HHSUnited States/ ; KL2 TR001118/TR/NCATS NIH HHSUnited States/ ; UL1RR024986/RR/NCRR NIH HHSUnited States/ ; 1 P30AG043097-01/AG/NIA NIH HHSUnited States/ ; UL1 TR000055/TR/NCATS NIH HHSUnited States/ ; UL1 TR000002/TR/NCATS NIH HHSUnited States/ ; UL1 TR000170/TR/NCATS NIH HHSUnited States/ ; UL1 TR000083/TR/NCATS NIH HHSUnited States/
• Volume:
  89
• Issue:
  4
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  CDC Public Access
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  urn:sha256:cf835e2b04e44822b4476e70d593e1083f9d24bccf7e676dd513d305f2e16012
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