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Objectives: To describe approaches that public health and social entrepreneurs take to address health equity, and identify strategies for equitable collaborations with these entrepreneurs., Methods: We leveraged data from semi-structured interviews, conducted August to October 2022, with 20 public health and social entrepreneurs who focus on drivers of health and health equity. Two researchers employed content analysis, guided by a prior framework., Results: To support health equity, public health and social entrepreneurs: center equity, critique biases, innovate for inclusion, engage translational expertise, catalyze capacity, and activate equitable systems. Equitable collaborations are supported by re-examining roles, de-conflicting organizational barriers, prioritizing representation, mitigating bias in generating evidence, and employing equitable capital., Conclusions: Public health and social entrepreneurs can uplift equity across health service design and delivery. More equitable collaborations can advance this work., Competing Interests: Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper below: The Deloitte Health Equity Institute and New Profit have a collaboration to fund and support social entrepreneurs., (Copyright © 2024 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.)

Big cities continue to be centers for innovative solutions and services. Governments are quickly identifying opportunities to take advantage of this energy and revolutionize the means by which they deliver services to the public. The governmental public health sector is rapidly evolving in this respect, and Chicago is an emerging example of some of the changes to come. Governments are gradually adopting innovative informatics and big data tools and strategies, led by pioneering jurisdictions that are piecing together the standards, policy frameworks, and leadership structures fundamental to effective analytics use. They give an enticing glimpse of the technology's potential and a sense of the challenges that stand in the way. This is a rapidly evolving environment, and cities can work with partners to capitalize on the innovative energies of civic tech communities, health care systems, and emerging markets to introduce new methods to solve old problems.

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.