[H+T--Friends] Metrics That Matter for Population Health Action: Workshop Summary

Also in today's TRB e-newletter. The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has released a report that summarizes the presentations and discussions from a workshop to explore the status and uses of measures and measurement in the work of improving population health. Participants explored existing and emerging population health metric sets and characteristics of metrics necessary for stakeholder action across multiple sectors. In times of rapid change and constrained resources, measures that are important, focused, and reliable are vital. However there is an overabundance of measures available for evaluating various aspects of population health and previous efforts to simplify existing sets to meet the needs of all decision makers have been unsuccessful. TRB is part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, which provides independent, objective analysis and advice to the nation and conducts other activities to solve complex problems and inform public policy decisions. The Academies also encourage education and research, recognize outstanding contributions to knowledge, and increase public understanding in matters of science, engineering, and medicine. The full report can be downloaded at http://www.nap.edu/catalog/21899/metrics-that-matter-for-population-health-… -- Ed Christopher Transportation Planning Consultant 708-269-5237