An approach to health that aims to improve the health of the entire population and to reduce health inequities among population groups. Population health is fundamental to the field of public health and differentiates it from the field of medicine, which largely focuses on the health of individuals.
Programs which attend to the health status of the whole population, or whole population sub-groups within the totality of a population. Population health programs are designed to promote health, reduce morbidity, and include monitoring and evaluating populations' health status. A population health approach is based on the premise that health at the individual, local and global levels is the result of a complex interplay of biological, psychological, social, environmental, civil and economic factors.
The health of groups, families and communities. Populations may be defined by locality, biological criteria such as age or gender, social criteria such as socioeconomic status, or cultural criteria such as whanau.
Population health is an approach to health that aims to improve the health of the entire population and to reduce health inequities among population groups. In order to reach these objectives, it looks at and acts upon the broad range of factors and conditions that have a strong influence on our health
Population health is the state of health of a group of persons defined by geographic location, organizational affiliation or non-clinical characteristics. (Eligibility for measures of population health is not restricted to recipients of clinical care.)
The health, well-being, and functioning of a clearly defined population. "The health outcomes of a group of individuals, including the distribution of such outcomes within the groups" (Kindig and Stoddart 2003).
Population health is an approach to health that aims to improve the health of an entire population. One major step in achieving this aim is to reduce health inequities among population groups. Population health seeks to step beyond the individual-level focus of mainstream medicine and public health by addressing a broad range of factors that impact health on a population-level, such as environment, social structure, resource distribution, etc.