Public Health & Clinical Care Integration

Information and resources focused on integrating public health and clinical care

• A Practical Playbook: Public Health. Primary Care. Together.
  Guides users through the stages of integrated population health improvement; provides helpful resources though each stage, such as success stories, lessons learned, and guidance from industry experts
• CDC’s Primary Care and Public Health Initiative
  Fosters linkages between public health and primary care by integrating population health into medical residency program curricula and competencies; increasing clinician understanding of public health problems and national initiatives offering potential solutions; and increasing clinician awareness and use of CDC resources
• Center of Excellence for Integrated Health Solutions
  Provides resources to support organizations that are integrating primary and behavioral healthcare
• Community-Oriented Primary Care (COPC) Curriculum
  Inform trainees at educational health centers about the basic tenets of COPC and to provide tools for students to set up and manage COPC implementations in their communities
• Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists, Public Health and Primary Care Integration Subcommittee
  Provides resources on addressing community surveillance to support community health needs assessments, the public health interface, use of electronic health records, and sharing successes and lessons learned from public health and primary care partnerships
• Integrating Primary Care and Public Health, Supplement to the American Journal of Public Health
  Provides editorials, commentaries, research, and practice information on the integration of primary care and public health
• Primary Care and Public Health Integration Success Stories
  Provides clearinghouse of integration success stories from ASTHO
• Public Health and Health Care Collaboration: The Workforce Perspective
  Information on tools to support integration; educating the next generation of the public health and healthcare workforce in a shared vision of population health; training the current public health and healthcare workforce on working together toward the common goal of population health; and strategic coordination among partners
• The Medicine and Public Health Initiative: Ten Years Later
  Provides the Initiative’s background, description, history and a list of current initiatives