Family planning programs (including contraceptives) play a major role in population health. For example, the United States Agency for International Development lists as benefits of its international family planning program:
"Protecting the health of women by reducing high-risk pregnancies"
"Protecting the health of children by allowing sufficient time between pregnancies"
"Fighting HIV/AIDS through providing information, counseling, and access to male and female condoms"
"Reducing abortions"
"Supporting women's rights and opportunities for education, employment, and full participation in society"
"Protecting the environment by stabilizing population growth"
[edit] Population health management (PHM)
One method to improve population health is population health management (PHM), which has been defined as “the technical field of endeavor which utilizes a variety of individual, organizational and cultural interventions to help improve the morbidity patterns (i.e., the illness and injury burden) and the health care use behavior of defined populations”. PHM is distinguished from disease management by including more chronic conditions and diseases, by use of "a single point of contact and coordination," and by "predictive modeling across multiple clinical conditions". PHM is considered broader than disease management in that it also includes "intensive care management for individuals at the highest level of risk" and "personal health management... for those at lower levels of predicted health risk.". Many PHM-related articles are published in Population Health Management, the official journal of DMAA: The Care Continuum Alliance
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