Overview Research Objective: Landmark research by Raj Chetty and colleagues finds wide geographic and intertemporal variation in the relationship between income and life expectancy in the U.S., using 1.4 billion administrative tax records from the IRS linked to nearly 7 million federal death records...

Overview The Affordable Care Act (ACA), along with Medicaid expansion, was expected to reduce the rising burden on hospitals from uncompensated care provision to uninsured people while creating new resources and incentives for hospitals to contribute to disease prevention and health promotion...

Overview Economics, access to health services, genetics, the environment, geography, age – all of these and more form a complex web of interdependent influences on wellbeing. The Arizona Wellbeing Commons brings scientists, clinicians and partners together in a powerful network of researchers to...

Overview Population and individual health are significantly influenced by social determinants that range from individuals’ knowledge and behaviors to community-level characteristics, resources, and conditions. The expertise and infrastructure to address these multiple and diverse challenges are...

Overview The research team presented at the 2019 Academy Health Annual Research Meeting in Washington, DC. The full abstract for the poster presentation entitled, “Reasons for Referral to Social Worker in a Primary Healthcare Setting: A Market Basket Analysis and Natural Language Processing Approach...

Overview Population and individual health are significantly influenced by social determinants that range from individuals’ knowledge and behaviors to community-level characteristics, resources, and conditions. The expertise and infrastructure to address these multiple challenges are divided among...

Overview Dr. Vest participated in the 2018 State Healthcare IT Connect Summit Enterprise System Planning, Health and Human Service Integration track with a dynamic discussion on how leaders public sector leaders and researchers are Designing for Impact by working across sectors and systems with a...

Overview The panel assembled for the Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science 2018 Conference presented research findings from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Systems for Action research program. About Social, economic, and environmental conditions strongly influence population...