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The Prevalence of Hospital Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Services: Good News, Bad News, and Policy Implications
Author(s) -
Olden Peter C.,
Clement Dolores G.
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
the milbank quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.563
H-Index - 101
eISSN - 1468-0009
pISSN - 0887-378X
DOI - 10.1111/1468-0009.00163
Subject(s) - health promotion , environmental health , health policy , health care , population health , medicine , public health , promotion (chess) , descriptive statistics , population , disease , family medicine , nursing , political science , statistics , mathematics , pathology , politics , law
In recent years, American health care has shifted toward an emphasis on population health in communities. National data from the American Hospital Association Annual Survey of Hospitals are used to describe the prevalence of 26 services provided by general hospitals that could contribute to health promotion and disease prevention (HPDP). Cross‐sectional descriptive analyses, based on national data sources, linked HPDP services to hospital characteristics, and factor analysis identified significant categories of HPDP activities. The results showed that many specific HPDP services are offered by thousands of hospitals, but prevalence, distribution, and availability of the services are uneven across the size and ownership of hospitals and their communities. Policy initiatives could increase the prevalence of hospitals’ health promotion and disease prevention services, thereby improving the health status of their communities.