Nancy A. Myers
Articles
Population/Community Health, AHA Center for Health Innovation, AHA Community Health Improvement (ACHI), Community Health Improvement Week (CHIWeek)
Rising Together to Create and Sustain Healthy, Vibrant Communities for All
As the global pandemic recedes, hospitals, health systems and community-based organizations must continue to align strategies and tactics and accelerate the shared work on ensuring health equity and creating communities that contribute to vitality for all.
Disparities/Equity of Care, Population/Community Health, Promoting Healthy Communities, Community Partnerships
To Advance Health Equity, You Must Invest in Communities
Place-based investment, otherwise known as community investment, helps create the social and physical environments that support community health over the long term. As communities recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, community investment will be an innovative yet useful strategy for reimagining and rebuilding a more equitable society at a scale that grants alone cannot achieve.
AHA Center for Health Innovation, Social Determinants of Health, Disparities/Equity of Care, Population/Community Health
Accelerating the Path to Equity with Population Health Tools
The COVID-19 pandemic has illuminated health inequities we face as a nation. But we鈥檙e also seeing innovation in all aspects of care delivery and community collaboration and partnerships to address these challenges. We know that the homes where people live and their support networks of family and friends influence people鈥檚 ability to stay healthy or recover quickly. Access to safe, affordable and stable housing is key to good health. Strong social connections are linked to longer life and better mental health, whereas a lack of such social ties is associated with depression and increased mortality.
AHA Center for Health Innovation, Promoting Healthy Communities
Local health systems promote healthy behaviors
Smoking, diabetes and hospital readmission rates fall and exercising and healthy eating increases in communities where hospitals and health systems use effective strategies to encourage healthy behavior changes, writes Nancy Myers, vice president of leadership and system innovation at the AHA Center for Health Innovation.
Population/Community Health, AHA
Population health connects care with community
In this AHA Stat Blog, Nancy Myers, AHA vice president of leadership and system innovation, highlights resources and tools to assist hospitals and health systems with their population health efforts.