This book instructs readers on the basic principles of population health, its neuropsychological applications at the organizational and community level, and emerging models of primary care and neuropsychological practice to meet population health demands. With the daunting healthcare crisis that confronts Americans, a population health framework is viewed across constituencies as a promising solution for closing key gaps and improving economic viability of the healthcare delivery system. Population health is conceptualized as the distribution of health outcomes within a population, the health determinants that influence that distribution, and the policies and interventions that affect the determinants. It embraces a comprehensive agenda that emphasizes primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention, early detection of disease and early intervention. As a consequence, there is an increased focus on healthcare upstream (creating, shifting, and supporting conditions that promote health) and reduced need for specialty healthcare downstream. While there are many determinants that affect the health of a population, the ultimate goal for health care providers, public health professionals, employers, payers, and policymakers is improving the overall health of a population. To date, there has been no systematic and comprehensive discussion of what is being done to adapt to population healthcare within neuropsychology. This book's focus on population health neuropsychology emphasizes not just theory, but next steps for immediate implementation and considerations on future applications.

Margaret Lanca is the Director of Neuropsychology and Cognitive Wellness and Director of Population Behavioral Health Innovation at Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA).  She is also Assistant Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. In the Division of Population Behavioral Health Innovation, she oversees the implementation of measurement-based care in psychiatry and develops new programs geared towards precision medicine and improvement of patient-centered care. In Neuropsychology, Maggie directs the neuropsychology service and oversees training of the neuropsychology postdoctoral fellows. Her clinical work is specialized in the provision of multicultural neuropsychological assessments to a diverse patient population.

Robert Fallows is the Senior Medical Director for Behavioral Health at Samaritan Health Services, a multi-hospital healthcare system focusing on delivering high quality, community based care in a rural setting. He has oversight on scaling behavioral health services, from inpatient and intensive care settings to ambulatory and integrated care settings, working within an integrated care delivery system involving health plans in addition to the hospitals and medical group. Robert also serves as co-chair for the Coast to Cascades Community Wellness Network, adjunct faculty to the psychiatry, family medicine, and psychology training programs and has served previously as medical director for integrated behavioral health and associate training director for psychology training. His clinical practice is focused on scaling neuropsychology to meet rural community health needs through primary care access and multi-disciplinary teams