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Rethinking Community Benefit Programs - A New Vision for Hospital Investment in Community Health Over the past decade, hospitals have been tasked with a growing responsibility to address the social determinants of health. This requires (1) policy reforms that incentivize investments in community health, (2)hospital-community partnerships, and (3) a renewed focus on the "investment" in community investment. [Extracted from the article]

In 2016, Keyes and Galea issued 9 foundational principles of population health science and invited further deliberations by specialists to advance the field. This article presents 7 foundational principles of population health policy whose intersection with health care, public health, preventive medicine, and now population health, presents unique challenges. These principles are in response to a number of overarching questions that have arisen in over a decade of the authors' collective practice in the public and private sectors, and having taught policy within programs of medicine, law, nursing, and public health at the graduate and executive levels. The principles address an audience of practitioners and policy makers, mindful of the pressing health care challenges of our time, including: rising health-related expenditures, an aging population, workforce shortages, health disparities, and a backdrop of inequities rooted in social determinants that have not been adequately translated into formal policies or practices among the key stakeholders in population health. These principles are meant to empower stakeholders-whether it is the planner or the practitioner, the decision maker or the dedicated caregiver-and inform the development of practical tools, research, and education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents a perspective on the role of U.S. health systems in preventing firearm injury in children and teenagers. Studies have revealed the increasing incidence of firearm injury and the death toll from it. A 2018 workshop sponsored by Kaiser Permanente and the American Hospital Association (AHA) identified ways to prevent firearm injury, including knowing the epidemiology and burden of firearm injury and investing in research on its risk factors.

A letter to the editor is presented in response to the article {Population Health, Public Health, and Accountable Care: Emerging Roles and Relationships" by Richard C. Ingram, Julia F. Costich, and F. Douglas Scutchfield, along with a response from the authors.

In this article the authors discuss a comprehensive public health agenda which was established in Chicago, Illinois by Chicago's Mayor, Rahm Emanuel, and the Chicago Department of Public Health and a health model in the city called Presence Health which aims to find resources for local health departments. In the article they offer their opinions on the agenda and model and on the need for public health collaboration that improves public health systems and policy making.