Total population or community-wide interventions

With bucket 3, the focus shifts. It includes interventions that are no longer oriented to a single patient or all of the patients within a practice or even all patients covered by a certain insurer. Rather, the target is an entire population or subpopulation usually identified by a geographic area. Interventions are based not in the doctor's office but in such settings as a neighborhood, city, county or state. This bucket is the one that is most unfamiliar to the clinical sector but quite comfortable to the public health sector.