Improving Population Health: What is the Role of Health Systems?
November 11, 2019
Improving Population Health: What is the Role of Health Systems?
Co-hosted by the Centre for Sustainable Health Systems
The hanging burden of disease requires health system to focus on promoting population health alongside their established role in treating illness. All parts of the health system must contribute by using resources more effectively and by recognizing the role of health systems as anchor institutions in their communities. Health systems also have a contribution to make in building partnerships for improving health with local governments, people and communities. This lecture will illustrate how this is being done in some jurisdictions and set out the challenges facing health system leaders in ‘turning around the oil tanker’.
Sir Chris Ham
Independent Chair, Coventry and Warwickshire STP, non-executive Director, Royal Free London, NHS Foundation Trust, Co-Chair of the NHS Assembly and Visiting Senior Fellow at The King’s Fund