The growth, and improvement, of healthcare quality and safety is dependent on patients, and health care providers, who are motivated and willing, to study the healthcare system structure, along with the organization of healthcare delivery, and amend the processes which lead to inaccuracies.[1] There isn’t quality health care, without first establishing strong public health, and in order to ensure quality health care, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement suggests the ‘Triple Aim’.[2]

• The first of the triple aim is to improve the health of the general population, rather than one-on-one care, which proves to be more cost-effective.

• The second aim is to improve patients’ experiences, when receiving healthcare, at every level of healthcare, by centralizing around disease management and prevention.

• Finally, the third aim is to lower the per-capita cost of healthcare, by lowering the weight of disease, improving self-care so less people will require outside care, and improving the overall efficiency of healthcare services.[3]

Do you all agree with the ‘Triple Aim’?

Which improvements to health care would you suggest or add?

[1] Nash, D. B., Skoufalos, A., Fabius, R., Oglesby, W. H. (2021). Population Health: Creating a 

Culture of Wellness (3rd ed.) Jones and Bartlett Learning. 

[2] Hancock T. (2017). No quality health care without strong public health. US National Library of 

Medicine National Institutes of Health, 189(46), E1435. https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.171287

[3] Hancock T. (2017). No quality health care without strong public health. US National Library of 

Medicine National Institutes of Health, 189(46), E1435. https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.171287