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Accountable Health Organizations:
Harnessing the Potential of Healthy Communities
Healthy Communities:
The Intersection of Community Development and Health
Eduardo Sanchez, MD,MPH,FAAFP
Vice President and Chief Medical Officer
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas
September 28, 2011
What we are facing
Poor health status nationally – getting worse
High medical care costs nationally – increasing
Slipping competitiveness globally
What we know
A healthy workforce = higher productivity + lower medical
costs
Fit kids = smart kids
Higher educational attainment = better health + higher
income + higher likelihood of health insurance
What Drives Health Status and
Health Care Costs?
How Can We Encourage and Support Behavior Change?
Source: IFTF and Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Health and Healthcare 2010, January 2000
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Relationship between Social
Determinants and Mortality in 2000
Low education level
Racial segregation
Low social support
Deaths (1000s)
Individual poverty
Income inequality
Area level poverty
0
AJPH
50
100 150 200 250 300
Place Matters
• Determinant of Diabetes?
• Persons living in low-income communities are 80% more
likely to be hospitalized for diabetes or related complications
compared with those living in affluent areas.
Source: AHRQ
Personal Choice or Healthy Food Accessibility?
• Low income areas have 1/3 fewer grocery stores than higher
income neighborhoods.
• Corner stores and gas stations typically charge 1½ times the
price of similar items in grocery stores.
• Not having automobile or adequate public transportation can
reduce access to affordable, healthy food.
• Less expensive foods are often high in calories and fat.
• Limited time and knowledge of food preparation can
increase demand and consumption of prepackaged or
processed foods.
Community Health and Food Access: The Local Government Role; http://icma.org/activeliving
National High School Graduation
Rates, 2003-04
76.2%
49.3%
Native
American
53.4%
57.8%
Black
Latino
Cities in Crisis, EPE Research Center, 2008
White
80.2%
Asian
Healthy people do healthy things
Healthy Behavior
Eating smart
Being active
Maintain healthy weight
Avoid tobacco
Measures of Health
Healthy weight
Healthy lipid profile
Normal blood sugar
Avoid tobacco
Healthy communities have the elements
that enable healthy people
Health Promoting Factors
Accessible, affordable food
• Supermarkets
• Gardens and farmer’s markets
Accessible, affordable venues for activity
• Safe, lighted sidewalks
• Dual use schools
• Parks
• Fitness/Recreation Centers
Approaches to prevent
childhood obesity
• Food environment
– Raise awareness
– Increase consumption of healthful food
– Decrease consumption of less healthy food
• Built environment
– Raise awareness
– Increase physical activity
– Decrease screen time
Healthy communities have the elements
that enable healthy people
Health Promoting Factors (cont.)
Safe, healthy academically strong schools
Wellness supporting workplaces - jobs
Accessible, affordable primary care (medical home)
Access to “public health” services
Community Development
Retail
• Incentives for supermarkets, fitness centers etc.
Housing
• Locate in a healthy community or one that wants to be
• Lighting, sidewalks, fitness
Roads – transportation
• Safe streets for walking and bicycles
• Rationalized mass transit
Parks and recreation
• Accessible, safe
Health system – public health, medical care, health plans
Community Development
Health system
Medical Care
• Locate “medical homes” in a healthy community
• Small or not so small business – Employer
“Public health” services
• Compliment medical care
• Jobs and services
• Food safety – retail and restaurants
• Disease surveillance and control
The Role of Health Plans
Support evidence-based policy changes
• Indoor smoking laws
• Coordinated school health
• Workplace wellness
PCMH (patient-centered medical home)
• Systems thinking – nonclinical opportunities
• Wagner’s “chronic care model” – community
engagement
ACO (accountable care organization)
• Systems thinking – nonclinical components
• Public health (population health) consideration
The Role of Health Plans
Charitable contributions (BCBSTX)
• CASA
• CareVan
• MarathonKids
• American Heart Association
• Organwise Guys
• Kaboom
Individual level incentives (BCBSTX)
• Tobacco surcharge/NRT (nicotine replacement therapy)
• Fitness centers membership card
• Blue Points
• Metabolic syndrome program
The US Health Care System?
“an expensive plethora of uncoordinated,
unlinked, economically segregated,
operationally limited microsystems each
performing in ways that too often lead to
suboptimal performance”
(Halvorson, 2007)
Achieving Health Equity will Require
Non-Clinical Strategies
• Improve coordination of relevant agencies and organizations
whose activities address determinants of health (education,
housing, agriculture, employment, health)
• Finding ways to increase the availability of healthy,
affordable food in underserved communities (encouraging
major grocery chains and farmers’ markets to locate in
such communities)
• Promoting community-level interventions for health
promotion (tobacco control programs and exercise
initiatives)
• School-based strategies to improve graduation rates and
reverse obesity trends
(Smedley, Health Affairs)
PETE supports keeping Humpty
from having a great fall
Accountable Health
Organizations (AHOs)
Manages the “Investment in Health” portfolio for a community –
Health in All Policies
The set of retail, public, social, health (including medical care)
services associated with a defined population - accountable for the
health status and outcomes for that population.
The providers of services could include a local health department,
health plans, employers, primary care providers, specialists, and
other health and non-health professionals who share responsibility
for the quality and cost of services provided to individuals and
communities and for maximizing individual and community health.
Attribution methodologies for accountability (credit for contribution to
health and charges to fund and sustain the system).
Makes money by achieving highest health status (= economic
competitiveness)
The Accountable Health Organization to
get to A Healthy Community
Community Development
Public Health
Medical Care