Strategies

Implement multi-component efforts that include coordination of health services by multidisciplinary teams of health care professionals, patient self-management, and patient education

Create financial incentives or remove financial disincentives to affect consumer choices and incentivize provision of cost efficient health care services

Provide educational and behavioral interventions that support patients’ ability to actively manage their condition(s) in everyday life

Support joint decision making between health care practitioners and patients through shared decision making (SDM); part of patient-centered care

Use payments, vouchers, and other incentives to encourage patients to undergo preventive care such as screenings, vaccinations, etc.

Tailor health care to patients’ norms, beliefs, and values, as well as their language and literacy skills

Provide continuous, comprehensive, whole person primary care that uses a coordinated team of medical providers across the health care system

Provide interpretation services for patients with limited English proficiency (LEP) in outpatient and inpatient health care settings, following training and certification

Use an intensive, family- and community-based intervention that addresses individual, family and environmental risk factors that affect antisocial behaviors among serious juvenile offenders

Increase health care providers’ skills and knowledge to understand and respond to cultural differences, value diversity, etc. via factual information, skills training, and other efforts