Leading through Health System Change: Planning Tool

Leading through Health System Change: Planning Tool

Public health leaders have important questions related to how the Affordable Care Act (ACA) will affect the future of public health at local, state, and national levels. With input from public health professionals from across the country, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Network of Public Health Institutes, and the Georgia Health Policy Center have created this collaborative planning tool to help public health organizations begin to examine and discuss opportunities and challenges that health system change poses. The tool’s website and interactive PDF can be used individually or with a team to examine the basics of health care reform, apply adaptive thinking to questions related to health system change, and create a simplified implementation plan to leverage the opportunities in the health care reform law to improve population health.