The Collaborating Research Center at Arizona State University (ASU) brings together experts from the Center for Applied Behavioral Health Policy (CABHP), the Center for Health Information Research (CHiR), and the Decision Theater (DT) as well as faculty from the ASU School for the Science of Health Care Delivery and the Department of Biomedical Informatics within the College of Health Solutions, representing complementary multidisciplinary expertise in all three types of delivery and finance systems indicated in the Systems For Action research agenda: medical care, public health, and social services. The Center will establish the “Action Research Center for a Culture of Health (ARCCOH) to address the Systems for Action Research Agenda Priority Area #1; investigating the implementation and impact of strategies designed to achieve alignment, collaboration, and synergy across delivery and financing systems.
Utilizing Community Based Participatory Research approaches, the signature project of the ARCCOH will develop evidence regarding system-level strategies that achieve alignment, partnership and synergy across the delivery and financing systems for medical care, public and social and community services by analyzing the health care coordination of patients with mental illness and/or substance use disorders, also referred to as behavioral health disorders (BHDs). This population group experiences significant fragmentation in health care services due to overlapping financing mechanisms, conflicting policies and institutionalization bias, resulting in a significant barrier to improving the health, well-being, and equity.
Participatory Action Research methodologies will be utilized to investigate current multisector structure of BHD policy, services delivery, and financing systems with an eye towards identifying both gaps and innovative factors with potential major impacts on access, efficiency and equity. These innovative factors will be visualized using a mixed-method approach to model interventions and predict outcomes at the systems level (including microsimulation, data visualization, Delphi simulation, financial modeling, causal models through structural equations and quasi-experimental designs, and Social Network Analysis)
The ARCCOH will utilize an assortment of innovative methods to produce evidence regarding system-level strategies that achieve alignment, partnership and synergy across the delivery and financing systems for medical care, public and social and community services by utilizing multiple research and analytic methods, combining results from these multiple methods, and disseminating findings that promotes innovation and transformational action to stakeholders and policy makers at national, state and local levels.
Grant ID:
73486
Primary Investigator:
William Riley
Applicant Organization:
Arizona State University
Grant Type:
Collaborative Research Center
Award Amount:
$484 296.00
Start Date:
Tuesday, March 1, 2016
End Date:
Wednesday, February 28, 2018
X Drive Location:
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