Editing Epidemiology (section)

== Population-based health management ==
Epidemiological practice and the results of epidemiological analysis make a significant contribution to emerging population-based health management frameworks.

Population-based health management encompasses the ability to:
* Assess the health states and health needs of a target population;
* Implement and evaluate interventions that are designed to improve the health of that population; and
* Efficiently and effectively provide care for members of that population in a way that is consistent with the community's cultural, policy and health resource values.

Modern population-based health management is complex, requiring a multiple set of skills (medical, political, technological, mathematical, etc.) of which epidemiological practice and analysis is a core component, that is unified with management science to provide efficient and effective health care and health guidance to a population. This task requires the forward-looking ability of modern risk management approaches that transform health risk factors, incidence, prevalence and mortality statistics (derived from epidemiological analysis) into management metrics that not only guide how a health system responds to current population health issues but also how a health system can be managed to better respond to future potential population health issues.<ref>{{cite web|title=Measuring Health and Disease I: Introduction to Epidemiology |url=http://open.umich.edu/education/med/oernetwork/public-health/epidemiology/intro-epidemiology/2010 |access-date=16 December 2011 |author1=Neil Myburgh |author2=Debra Jackson |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110801204104/https://open.umich.edu/education/med/oernetwork/public-health/epidemiology/intro-epidemiology/2010 |archive-date=1 August 2011 }}</ref>

Examples of organizations that use population-based health management that leverage the work and results of epidemiological practice include Canadian Strategy for Cancer Control, Health Canada Tobacco Control Programs, Rick Hansen Foundation, Canadian Tobacco Control Research Initiative.<ref>{{cite conference |last1=Smetanin |first1=P. |author2=P. Kobak |title=Interdisciplinary Cancer Risk Management: Canadian Life and Economic Impacts |url=http://www.riskanalytica.com/sites/riskanalytica.com/files/Canadian%20Cancer%20Abstract%2010%20June%202005.pdf |conference=1st International Cancer Control Congress |date=October 2005 |access-date=2 August 2013 |archive-date=2 February 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140202111313/http://www.riskanalytica.com/sites/riskanalytica.com/files/Canadian%20Cancer%20Abstract%2010%20June%202005.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite conference |last1=Smetanin |first1=P. |author2=P. Kobak |title=A Population-Based Risk Management Framework for Cancer Control |conference=The International Union Against Cancer Conference |date=July 2006 |conference-url=http://2006.confex.com/uicc/uicc/techprogram/P7935.HTM |url=http://www.riskanalytica.com/?q=node/73 |format=PDF |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140202111153/http://www.riskanalytica.com/?q=node%2F73 |archive-date=2 February 2014 |df=dmy-all }}</ref><ref>{{cite conference |last1=Smetanin |first1=P. |author2=P. Kobak |title=Selected Canadian Life and Economic Forecast Impacts of Lung Cancer |conference=11th World Conference on Lung Cancer |date=July 2005 |url=http://www.riskanalytica.com/?q=node/70 |format=PDF |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140202111300/http://www.riskanalytica.com/?q=node%2F70 |archive-date=2 February 2014 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>

Each of these organizations uses a population-based health management framework called Life at Risk that combines epidemiological quantitative analysis with demographics, health agency operational research and economics to perform:
* ''Population Life Impacts Simulations'': Measurement of the future potential impact of disease upon the population with respect to new disease cases, prevalence, premature death as well as potential years of life lost from disability and death;
* ''Labour Force Life Impacts Simulations'': Measurement of the future potential impact of disease upon the labour force with respect to new disease cases, prevalence, premature death and potential years of life lost from disability and death;
* ''Economic Impacts of Disease Simulations'': Measurement of the future potential impact of disease upon private sector disposable income impacts (wages, corporate profits, private health care costs) and public sector disposable income impacts (personal income tax, corporate income tax, consumption taxes, [[publicly funded health care]] costs).