A set of Healthy People 2020 objectives, called LHIs, have been selected to communicate high-priority health issues and actions that can be taken to address them. Health improvement programs are designed around one of these LHIs and, often, it will focus on a specific population. You are a population health specialist who has researched a specific population and needs to create an educational handout to make sure patients who fit into the special population understand the importance of managing or preventing their chronic illness or LHI from an economic perspective. Consider the economic and social implications of helping people get healthy and maintain their healthand avoid hospital readmissions. Connecting patients to support groups, services in their community, or other programs will improve health and prevent relapse.

• Identify the specific population that you are addressing.
• Describe the needs of the population.
• Identify the LHI that this population health program addresses.
• Describe at least two social determinants of health that impact the population.
• Identify and briefly describe the population health program that you selected.
  • Explain whether or not the program gained success within the population.
  • Include an APA reference to the article.
• Research the economic cost of the disease or condition that is being addressed and include that information.
• Research the costs of implementing this program (if available), or programs in communities that are similar in size and demographics and include this information.
• Describe the economic benefits of participating in the program.
• Explain what measures are used to determine the success of the program. Include data that pertains to the measurement of success. If no data is included in the article that pertains to success measurement, this should be indicated.
• Use CBA, CEA, ROI, or QALY to evaluate the success of the program. Each of these analysis tools is described in the resources. Explain why you chose the method that you used.
• Based on your CBA, CEA, ROI, or QALY analysis, do you think that this program has the potential to impact the population positively from an economic perspective?
• Be sure to cite and reference at least three supporting resources.