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This course provides a comprehensive foundation in the essentials of population health management. In this context, population health is a proactive, organized, and cost effective approach to health care that considers the distribution of health outcomes within a population, the health determinants that influence distribution of care, and the policies and interventions that impact the determinants. The ultimate goal of population health is reduced morbidity and improved health status, health service utilization, and personal productivity of individuals in defined populations. The course will focus on an interprofessional team approach to transform health systems for accountable care. Content will be organized around the four pillars of population health: chronic care management, quality and safety, health policy (including financing), and public health. In this course we will examine how health care delivery systems, public health agencies, community-based organizations, and other entities work together to develop and implement interventions to improve the health outcomes of local, national, and global communities. Prerequisites: NR.120.513, 210.606, 210.608