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This Viewpoint from the National Academy of Medicine's 2016 Vital Directions initiative discusses strategies to improve the health of populations at each stage of life through incentivizing and measuring health system performance to improve health, creating an interoperable digital health platform, and fostering a culture and practice of continuous health improvement.

This Viewpoint from the National Academy of Medicine’s 2016 Vital Directions initiative emphasizes the importance of refocusing some health policies toward addressing social and behavioral determinants of health and the potential effects of reducing health inequalities and improving the health and longevity of all people in the United States.

This Viewpoint from the National Academy of Medicine's 2016 Vital Directions initiative recommends ways to improve the health and health care of older persons, including development of new care delivery models for people with chronic conditions and strengthening of the elder care workforce.

This Viewpoint from the National Academy of Medicine's 2016 Vital Directions initiative proposes that the most effective way to prevent chronic disease in US adults is to promote policies that limit tobacco access, encourage physical activity, and uphold school nutrition standards among children.

This Viewpoint from the National Academy of Medicine’s 2016 Vital Directions initiative proposes strategies to improve access to effective care for people with mental health and substance use disorders.

This Viewpoint from the National Academy of Medicine's 2016 Vital Directions initiative discusses strategies to improve community and population health.

This Viewpoint from the National Academy of Medicine’s 2016 Vital Directions initiative proposes improvements to the design of health benefits in the United States to enable more effective, efficient, and affordable care for patients.

This Viewpoint from the National Academy of Medicine's 2016 Vital Directions initiative discusses strategies to align payment reform with efforts to improve health care quality, value, and health outcomes that are important to patients.

This Viewpoint from the National Academy of Medicine’s 2016 Vital Directions initiative proposes core changes in health care culture and infrastructure that will be necessary before payment reforms can result in improved patient outcomes and at lower costs.

This Viewpoint from the National Academy of Medicine’s 2016 Vital Directions initiative proposes health infrastructure and policy changes to improve care for high-need, high-cost patients.

This Viewpoint from the National Academy of Medicine's 2016 Vital Directions initiative proposes strategies to accelerate the integration of precision medicine into clinical practice.

This Viewpoint from the National Academy of Medicine’s 2016 Vital Directions initiative summarizes the benefits of using quality performance measures in health care and the means by which policy makers can help enhance the effectiveness of performance measurement and reporting.

This Viewpoint from the National Academy of Medicine's 2016 Vital Directions initiative explores several topics that are key to the democratization of health care and proposes policy considerations to engage the United States in a journey to better health.

This Viewpoint from the National Academy of Medicine’s 2016 Vital Directions initiative summarizes changes that are needed in the US health care, its workforce, and its methods of care delivery to more effectively meet patient needs of the 21st century.

This Viewpoint from the National Academy of Medicine’s 2016 Vital Directions initiative proposes changes in policy and infrastructure to facilitate health information technology (HIT) interoperability and improve clinical care and health system efficiency.•

This Viewpoint from the National Academy of Medicine’s 2016 Vital Directions initiative discusses changes needed in the culture and infrastructure of the health system to promote data sharing.

This Viewpoint from the National Academy of Medicine’s 2016 Vital Directions initiative proposes ways to accelerate drug discovery and development to bring clinically important advances to patients more rapidly.

This Viewpoint from the National Academy of Medicine's 2016 Vital Directions initiative discusses research into brain disorders as an example of the use of science-based initiatives to target translational gaps.

This Viewpoint from the National Academy of Medicine's 2016 Vital Directions initiative proposes actions needed to meet the changing educational and training needs of the US health science workforce.