Public Health & Clinical Care Integration

Information and resources focused on integrating public health and clinical care

• A Practical Playbook: Public Health. Primary Care. Together.
  Guides users through the stages of integrated population health improvement; provides helpful resources though each stage, such as success stories, lessons learned, and guidance from industry experts
• CDC’s Primary Care and Public Health Initiative
  Fosters linkages between public health and primary care by integrating population health into medical residency program curricula and competencies; increasing clinician understanding of public health problems and national initiatives offering potential solutions; and increasing clinician awareness and use of CDC resources
• Community-Oriented Primary Care (COPC) Curriculum
  Inform trainees at educational health centers about the basic tenets of COPC and to provide tools for students to set up and manage COPC implementations in their communities
• Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists, Public Health and Primary Care Integration Subcommittee
  Provides resources on addressing community surveillance to support community health needs assessments, the public health interface, use of electronic health records, and sharing successes and lessons learned from public health and primary care partnerships
• Integrating Primary Care and Public Health, Supplement to the American Journal of Public Health
  Provides editorials, commentaries, research, and practice information on the integration of primary care and public health
• Practice-Based Population Health: Information Technology to Support Transformation to Proactive Primary Care [PDF 752]
  Outlines the key IT functionalities for practice-based population health, developed from the perspective of providers
• Primary Care and Public Health Activities in Select US Health Centers
  Examines primary care and public health activities among federally funded health centers to better understand their successes, barriers encountered, and lessons learned
• Primary Care and Public Health: Promoting Integration to Improve Population Health
  Recommends ways that CDC and HRSA can foster integration between primary care and public health through funding, policy levers, and other means
• Primary Care and Public Health Integration Success Stories
  Provides clearinghouse of integration success stories from ASTHO
• Public Health and Health Care Collaboration: The Workforce Perspective
  Information on tools to support integration; educating the next generation of the public health and healthcare workforce in a shared vision of population health; training the current public health and healthcare workforce on working together toward the common goal of population health; and strategic coordination among partners
• SAMSHA Health Care Integration
  Provides information on improving healthcare quality through the systematic coordination of primary and behavioral healthcare
• The Medicine and Public Health Initiative: Ten Years Later
  Provides the Initiative’s history and growing significance in light of recent terrorism events, as well as a report on current activities