Population Health Guide for Undertaking a Three-Part Data Review
This approach helps provide a more holistic view of the needs and assets of the patients and individuals in a chosen population to then identify ways to meaningfully address population health needs.
Highlights
- Three-part data review overview and instructions
- Templates that can be adapted
- An equity-focused version of the Population Health Guide for Undertaking a Three-Part Data Review
A key part of the population health journey is to understand the needs and assets of the patients and individuals in your chosen population. This understanding is core to defining aims, engaging the right partners in the work, and designing effective, equitable, and sustainable care and service delivery systems.
While focusing on needs is an important part of the process, solely using this approach can focus only on deficiencies within a population. This is why it’s also key to consider an assets-based approach, which suggests that all individuals and populations have multiple strengths and capacities which could be harnessed to make them thrive more fully.
The equity-focused version of the Guide for Undertaking a Three-Part Data Review draws on asset-based inquiry (rather than deficit-based thinking), to surface not only “needs” and/or “opportunities” but, importantly, to understand the ways in which systems have discarded or undervalued the assets of individuals and communities, and then to work together to ensure that all can contribute to advancing population health and well-being and dismantling inequities. This approach explores data and information (both quantitative and qualitative) from multiple perspectives, especially of those in and who work with the population of focus.
Three-Part Data Review Process
One way in which you can explore the assets and needs within a population is through conducting a three-part data review. This includes looking at:
- Reviewing available data on the population to identify overall patterns that impact the chosen population
- Engagement with care teams and professionals providing care or supporting the population to understand their perspective on the chosen population’s greatest needs and assets
- Patient/client/individual interviews and engagement to understand their experience and perspective, what is important to them, the real-world challenges they face in managing their health and living situations, and what might help
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