Population medicine is an emerging medical discipline that aims to maximize aggregate and long-term population health by mobilizing accessible resources through its five care responsibilities: prevention, diagnosis, control, treatment, and recovery; integrating and applying knowledge, principles, and technologies of modern medicine and related disciplines; coordinating individual health behaviors and collective health actions; and serving as the medical foundation of public health practices. Population health economics is important in population medicine and public health. Since resources are limited, in order to maximize the aggregate and long-term population health benefit we must produce and allocate resources in an effective and efficient manner. The value of healthcare interventions are often underestimated and health resources are mostly insufficient. The broader social and economic values of healthcare interventions are frequently ignored. It is important that we distribute health resources wisely and maximize efficiencies at all three levels—micro, meso, and macro-levels. Thus, this Research Topic focuses on how population health economics, as both a key method and a value, can help population medicine practitioners to provide better and more efficient care to the population they serve.
In the face of an ongoing pandemic, we experience immense pressure from incorporating pandemic prevention into our daily routine. Added to that we have demographic transitions and epidemiological transitions, the challenge of dealing with aging populations as well as the huge burden of chronic diseases. At this stage where we are facing multiple challenges, it is of utmost importance that we achieve people-centered sustainable development through investing in health and healthcare. We must increase investment in medical technology and promote medical-related research and development by establishing or strengthening a national medical science and technology innovation system. We should and must ensure high-quality medical education, because education represents the future of our field. We aim to increase construction of healthcare institutions and the recruitment of leading experts as well as increase investment in health insurance expansion. We must pay special attention to price of healthcare. We need to establish strong medical regulation departments, including the Food and Drug Administration, the Medical Insurance Bureau, the Ministry of Health, etc. We should also strongly promote the development of health industry and establish quality system mechanisms accordingly. There are many difficulties to face and many tasks to be done. The points listed above are simply a fragment of the long and winding road ahead, which brings us to the significance of this Research Topic.
The scope of this Research Topic includes all research, viewpoint, and other types of articles on population medicine, population health economics, health systems, and health policy, such as:
• Investing in healthcare and health for economics and human development;
• Valuing health and healthcare at the macroeconomic level;
• Health insurance and universal health coverage;
• Health industry;
• Population health and health economics;
• Developing, analyzing, and testing population medicine interventions and policies that address large healthcare needs;
• The interrelations between health status, society and economic growth;
• Improving efficiency of care;
• Health system reform and healthcare services.
Population medicine is an emerging medical discipline that aims to maximize aggregate and long-term population health by mobilizing accessible resources through its five care responsibilities: prevention, diagnosis, control, treatment, and recovery; integrating and applying knowledge, principles, and technologies of modern medicine and related disciplines; coordinating individual health behaviors and collective health actions; and serving as the medical foundation of public health practices. Population health economics is important in population medicine and public health. Since resources are limited, in order to maximize the aggregate and long-term population health benefit we must produce and allocate resources in an effective and efficient manner. The value of healthcare interventions are often underestimated and health resources are mostly insufficient. The broader social and economic values of healthcare interventions are frequently ignored. It is important that we distribute health resources wisely and maximize efficiencies at all three levels—micro, meso, and macro-levels. Thus, this Research Topic focuses on how population health economics, as both a key method and a value, can help population medicine practitioners to provide better and more efficient care to the population they serve.
In the face of an ongoing pandemic, we experience immense pressure from incorporating pandemic prevention into our daily routine. Added to that we have demographic transitions and epidemiological transitions, the challenge of dealing with aging populations as well as the huge burden of chronic diseases. At this stage where we are facing multiple challenges, it is of utmost importance that we achieve people-centered sustainable development through investing in health and healthcare. We must increase investment in medical technology and promote medical-related research and development by establishing or strengthening a national medical science and technology innovation system. We should and must ensure high-quality medical education, because education represents the future of our field. We aim to increase construction of healthcare institutions and the recruitment of leading experts as well as increase investment in health insurance expansion. We must pay special attention to price of healthcare. We need to establish strong medical regulation departments, including the Food and Drug Administration, the Medical Insurance Bureau, the Ministry of Health, etc. We should also strongly promote the development of health industry and establish quality system mechanisms accordingly. There are many difficulties to face and many tasks to be done. The points listed above are simply a fragment of the long and winding road ahead, which brings us to the significance of this Research Topic.
The scope of this Research Topic includes all research, viewpoint, and other types of articles on population medicine, population health economics, health systems, and health policy, such as:
• Investing in healthcare and health for economics and human development;
• Valuing health and healthcare at the macroeconomic level;
• Health insurance and universal health coverage;
• Health industry;
• Population health and health economics;
• Developing, analyzing, and testing population medicine interventions and policies that address large healthcare needs;
• The interrelations between health status, society and economic growth;
• Improving efficiency of care;
• Health system reform and healthcare services.
