Empowering Global Health and Well-Being
HSA envisions the potential for a foundational/pivotal change in addressing and managing NCDs and ultimately improving global population health.
Multisectoral Approach
A multisectoral approach, and confluence of major sectors – including healthcare, education, housing, food and agriculture, transportation, parks, and recreation (including spaces dedicated to safe physical activity). Engagement with community leadership and grassroots organizations is vital.
Learning Information Systems
Establishing Learning Information Systems – surveillance using all possible data streams macro and micro level.
- Data sources: health systems data including patient-level data – e.g., claims, labs, pharmacy, patient centered data surveys
- Learning Health Systems: leveraging EMR-based data infrastructure
- Environmental/Social Determinant of Health data
- Forming Learning Communities of Practice
- Adoption of a key region/location – Geographic unit for defined population denominator
Early identification of Risk Factors
Earlier identification using screening guided by risk prediction using traditional statistics and/or AI.
- Systematic, preferably evidence-based screening programs with provision for follow-up.
Strenghening Health Systems
Empowering Health Systems to take greater responsibility of the health of communities they serve.
- Focused attention and interventions on social determinants of health (SDOH), health literacy, and access to patient-centered care
- Life-cycle approach to health
- Social prescribing and enhancement of social-care workforce/community health workers
HSA will create centers of excellence for community health and well-being improvement.
These centers will connect with academic institutions, health systems, and public health systems, establishing data-driven surveillance/learning protocols for health systems and connecting them to communities through orientation, education, and training of community health workers and social workers.
In parallel, HSA will implement an educational mission with a state-of-the-art knowledge base on chronic disease, risk factors, management, outcomes, etc. – establishing key outcome and process metrics emphasizing the important role of social determinants of health, lifestyle, and behavior change for factors such as smoking, alcohol, drugs, physical activity, evidence-based dietary guidance, etc.
By connecting multiple sectors and establishing a track record of iterative, evidence-based change, HSA will endeavor to continue to raise awareness and change attitudes and policy toward health and disease – not only influencing personal behaviors, but influencing policy
and practice in areas such as attention to the environment and sustainable development.