Thomas E. Kottke, MD, MSPH

The authors evaluated a brief assessment tool that accountable care organizations can use to help elementary schools improve student nutrition and increase physical activity.

The authors used health care claims and survey data to identify a strategy that might promote life satisfaction while advancing equity in an insured population.

Among HealthPartners plan members, musculoskeletal, psychosocial, and neurologic conditions create the greatest burden to current health; diet offers the greatest opportunity to improve future health scores; and 42% report a high level of well-being.

When we weighted health insurance claims with a disease burden score, we were able to generate valid estimates of disability-adjusted life-years.

Although team-based care improved cardiovascular disease risk factors, it had a negative financial impact on a primary care practice.