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Overview

An article published in Psychiatry Online entitled, "Estimated Staff Time Effort, Costs, and Medicaid Revenues for Coordinated Specialty Care Clinics Serving Clients With First-Episode Psychosis" addresses the need for novel payment schemes and other innovative, sustainable financing mechanisms for coordinated care for first-episode psychosis. The full article can be found here.

The research team published an article in Health Affairs entitled “Indianapolis Provider's Use Of Wraparound Services Associated With Reduced Hospitalizations And Emergency Department Visits” It was published in the October 2018 issue and the abstract can be found here. 

The July 2018 policy brief “Aligning Systems to Build a Culture of Health: Integrating TANF and Medicaid to Achieve Wealth and Health” includes findings demonstrating the effectiveness of integrating behavioral health components into financial programming on improving physical, mental, emotional and financial outcomes. The full brief on the Center for Hunger-Free Communities website can be viewed here.

Objective: The aim of this study is to investigate the impact of Public Health Accreditation Board (PHAB) accreditation on the delivery of public health services and on participation from other sectors in the delivery of public health services in local public health systems.

Design: This study uses a longitudinal repeated measures design to identify differences between a cohort of public health systems containing PHAB-accredited local health departments and a cohort of public health systems containing unaccredited local health departments. It uses data spanning from 2006 to 2016.

Setting: This study examines a cohort of local public health systems that serves large populations and contains unaccredited and PHAB-accredited local health departments.

Participants: Data in this study were collected from the directors of health departments that include local public health systems followed in the National Longitudinal Study of Public Health Systems.

Intervention: The intervention examined is PHAB accreditation.

Main outcome measures: The study focuses on 4 areas: the delivery of core public health services, local health department contribution toward these services, participation in the delivery of these services by other members of the public health system, and public health system makeup.

Results: Prior to the advent of accreditation, public health systems containing local health departments that were later accredited by PHAB appear quite similar to their unaccredited peers. Substantial differences between the 2 cohorts appear to manifest themselves after the advent of accreditation. Specifically, the accredited cohort seems to offer a broader array of public health services, involve more partners in the delivery of those services, and enjoy a higher percentage of comprehensive public health systems.

Conclusions: The results of this study suggest that accreditation may yield significant benefits and may help public health systems develop the public health system capital necessary to protect and promote the public's health.

The research team published an article entitled “Assessing the capacity of social determinants of health data to augment predictive models identifying patients in need of wraparound social services.” in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association in January 2018. The abstract can be viewed here.

Financial empowerment education paired with trauma-informed peer support is more effective than customary TANF programming at improving behavioral health, reducing hardship, and increasing income. 

To read the full article, "Trauma-informed Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF): A Randomized Controlled Trial with a Two-Generation Impact" click here.

The July 2018 policy brief “Trauma-Informed Temporary Assistance for Needy Families: A Randomized Controlled Trial with a Two-Generation Impact” examines the effectiveness of trauma-informed peer support with financial programming on improving physical, mental, emotional and financial outcomes. The full brief on the Center for Hunger-Free Communities website can be viewed here. 

An article published in Health Services Research entitled, "Public Health Spending and Medicare Resource Use: A Longitudinal Analysis of U.S. Communities," uses longitudinal data collected from 2,900 local public health agencies from six census surveys conducted between 1993-2013. The study examines if medical spending for Medicare beneficiaries is influenced by local expenditures for public health activities. To read the article in full, click here.