Building Sustainable Financing Structures for Population Health: Insights from Non-Health Sectors: Proceedings of a Workshop by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Health and Medicine: Healthcare and Quality, Health and Medicine: Public Health and Prevention, Health and Medicine: Policy, Reviews and Evaluations
Publisher: The National Academies Press
Published: 2018-09-07T00:00:00+00:00

SETTING THE CONTEXT FOR DISCUSSION

The cases presented at the workshop thus far have been stories of economic transition, Milstein said. The prison industrial complex in the United States has generated mass incarceration and manifest waste in both human and economic terms, he said. The examples discussed showed how investment and reinvestment can lead to very different sets of results for offenders and communities. Similarly, in the energy sector, Milstein added, the petro-industrial complex causes some harm, and efforts are under way to transition to greener, more efficient energy.

The challenge for population health is how to effect an economic transition and an “industrial revolution” in the way that health care is structured and financed that results in better population health, greater health equity, and greater development of human potential. Milstein reiterated the point by Rogers that anything of value can be financed. The challenge is not just to promote evidence-based population health approaches, but to also define strategies for how to pay for them, with the mindset that financing should not be a constraint at the outset. How, with the assistance of financing experts and by taking lessons from other industries that have restructured to achieve similar co-benefits, can greater value and efficiencies be gained through focused innovations that improve population health?

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