Interprofessional collaboration practice is of major help in improving population health. This comes about when multiple health workers from different professional backgrounds and fields work together with the patients and their families. It also includes the patient’s carers and communities thus delivering the highest quality of care across all settings. Several principles guide this practice and thus ensures smooth collaboration. Improving population health majorly calls for the creation of a collective sense of responsibility across many organizations and individuals in addition to public health specialists. Close to that is the concept of population health management which involves the bringing together of health-related data of a population to promote health.
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THE IMPORTANCE OF INTERPROFESSIONAL COLLABORATION PRACTICE
Effective interprofessional collaboration practice is important since it provides a comprehensive and coordinated care system thus effectively responds to the peoples’ needs. It also helps to reduce the incidence and prevalence of disability especially those associated with non-communicable diseases. This mostly occurs when the health system embraces collaboration across the full cause of a disease. Moreover, it reduces job satisfaction since there is reduced stress and burnout of the health professionals. Additionally, it improves access to health interventions thus brings about improved coordination between different sectors. Lastly, it ensures the efficient use of resources which helps in improving population health.
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THE WAYS OF IMPROVING POPULATION HEALTH
There are several ways of improving population health. This includes segmenting potions populations in terms of age, gender, disease or behaviour. This, therefore, helps in reducing the spread of disease since there is minimal interaction between the people. Secondly, identifying risk factors. This involves the determination of the modifiable and non-modifiable risk factors thus enabling the reduction of the occurrence and spread of chronic diseases. Thirdly, the utilizing of primary medical care homes or models which focus on both safety and quality. This approach uses interprofessional collaboration practice to ensure comprehensive and personalized care for the population.
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