leading to a higher incidence of substance abuse, illness, violence
and the greater firearms availability in the United States.
Chapter 1 authored by Robert J. Esterhay, MD, and H.J Bohn,
Jr, MBA, is an exhaustive introduction to Population Health and
its several components and stresses the importance of a “more efficient, effective, integrated and well-coordinated population ecosystem.” Chapter 2’s authors Judah Thornewill, PhD, and Robert
Esterhay expound on Network Leadership in our inter-connected
world of people and organizations and very informative statistical
analyses of U.S. and global trends in population health needs. In
Chapter 3, Susan Olson Allen, PhD, and Raymond Austin, MD,
discuss Population Health Impact Assessment (HIA), a methodology to evaluate new initiatives that can affect the health and wellbeing of the community. The example of our “Louisville Loop HIA”
is presented and includes a comprehensive land-use plan that will
eventually lead to a paved trail of more than 100 miles around the
city of Louisville with positive environmental and health benefits.
Ronald T. Crouch, MBA, crunches numbers about demographic
trends globally, in the United States and local regions by race and
ethnicity, and the characteristics of our burgeoning older population and their special health care needs.
Chapter 5 is written by Robert William Prasaad Steiner, MD,
MPH, PhD, and Barry Wainscott, MD, MPH, and deals with defining the differences between the traditional medical care model
versus the nascent and evolving population health model. Social
determinants of health and factors related to social gradients of
health are discussed to devise health policy formulations. A very
interesting case example of a 4 y