Bridges to Health and Healthcare

Bridges to Health and Healthcare: New solutions for improving access and services (with embedded media) provides a fresh opportunity to improve health outcomes. Healthcare providers will learn to: - Engage and better serve individuals across the economic spectrum. – Reduce costs while achieving more successful patient outcomes. – Communicate complex medical information more clearly. – Design services to account for increasing diversity within communities. – Increase effectiveness within successful, patient-centered care initiatives. Public health organizations, communities, and governments will learn to:- Reduce the health gap and improve outcomes for all, especially those at risk. – Build sustainable neighborhoods and communities coordinated with all stakeholders. Engage all stakeholders in planning new practices for healthier communities. – Increase community social capital and cohesion linked to improved population health. – Provide collective impact models to drive population research at the community level.