This educational activity consists of recorded presentations from 20th Annual National Conference held in Minneapolis, Minnesota on October 4-6, 2011.
What evidence-based recommendations and strategies should guide legislative proposals and assist in the design of prevention programs in order to curb the major diseases and conditions that currently drive health care spending? With a focus on underlying drivers of ill health instead of the current cost of disease, this session will discuss ways to put more emphasis on health policy as a tool and question system incentives that may have negative impacts on overall disease-management strategies currently being used.

Learning Objectives
At the end of this educational activity, participants should be able to

1. List program value drivers that will potentially have the largest impact on the control of illness in our population
2. Recognize the value of health goals that are demonstrably achievable, drive policy review and show a real return on investment

Faculty
Kenneth E. Thorpe, PhD
Robert W. Woodruff Professor and Chair
Executive Director, Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease
Rollins School of Public Health of Emory University
Atlanta, Georgia

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Sponsor
This activity is sponsored by OptumHealth Education.

Commercial Support
This activity is supported by Purdue Pharma LP.

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