NJ Spotlight published the following article on 5/12/2014. To read the full article, click here.

Population Health Hopes to Capture Big Picture About Patients’ Lives

Jon Hurdle | May 12, 2014

Although David B. Nash is a doctor, he believes that factors like behavior, genetics, and environment are more important than medicine in determining a person’s health.

But he sees a new model for healthcare in New Jersey — the Medicaid Accountable Care Organization — as a potential vehicle for addressing some of these social determinants of wellbeing.

As dean of the only school of population health in the country, at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia,Nash is the acknowledged leader in this emerging field.

Population health has three elements: the health of a group of people; the factors that influence this population’s health; and the policies that affect these factors.

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