A Vision for Population Health

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Overview Substantial improvements in life expectancy over the past 100 years mean that people are living longer, healthier lives than ever before. However, England lags behind other countries on many key health outcomes, improvements in life expectancy have stalled and health inequalities are widening. To address this, we need to move away from a system just focused on diagnosing and treating illness towards one that is based on promoting wellbeing and preventing ill health. Population health is an approach that aims to improve physical and mental health outcomes, promote wellbeing and reduce health inequalities across an entire population. This report outlines The Kings Funds vision for population health, our reasoning for why such a vision is needed and the steps required to achieve it. Our vision is to reduce inequalities and achieve health outcomes on a par with the best in the world by focusing on population health locally, regionally and nationally. The report outlines a fr ...