Recently your company opened a new outpatient health center five miles of your hospital. Your CFO asks that you work with a healthcare team to evaluate predictive elements using the Grossman Model (page 50). The new outpatient center will serve a younger community (25-45) that is low income. Also, out of a population of 11,000 only 2.6% has earned a B.A. degree or higher. Lastly, violent crime has increased 22% in the last three years.
What are the competing issues? Using the Grossman Model, what preliminary assumptions can be made? How should your team consider outside forces such as the labor market, education, and safety in regard to health outcomes? Based on what you have learned in the program so far, how can you develop community health programs to optimize health literacy and improve patient outcomes?