Integrating clinical medicine and population health: where to from here?

Canadian Journal of Public Health = Revue Canadienne De Santé Publique
Andrew N RoubleLawrence C Loh

Abstract

Efforts to contain healthcare costs have led a renewed clinician interest in addressing population-level outcomes, with some proposing that the integration of population health into clinical practice represents a novel concept entitled "clinical population medicine" (CPM). This commentary offers an examination of the function and utility of CPM. In reviewing relevant literature, we note several inconsistencies in CPM's purported mandate, which ranges from simply incorporating the social determinants of health into clinical practice to broad involvement in community health planning. The latter of these seems to overlap, and potentially conflict, with the work of public health practitioners, and cited examples of activities used to define "CPM" seem to apply a label to established clinician activities around the determinants of health that would be captured more simply as research, evaluation, or advocacy undertaken by clinicians in other areas of practice. Our analysis suggests that CPM may have value in encouraging clinicians to incorporate community determinants and contextual considerations into their practices, but must take care to remain complementary and distinct from public health practice.

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