Overview Objectives: The Affordable Care Act created new inducements for hospitals, insurers, employers, and others to contribute to community-wide disease prevention and health promotion practices collectively referred to as public health activities. These inducements include tax incentives for...

Overview The United States faces growing public and policy demands to improve health status on a population-wide basis. This session reviews new research from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Systems for Action research program about the implementation of population health activities in...

Overview Building on integrated data sources from Arizona’s medical, mental health, and criminal justice systems, this project explores opportunities to better coordinate services for persons with mental illness and/or substance abuse disorders. Using interactive system dynamics modeling and network...

Overview Population and individual health are significantly influenced by nonclinical factors. These social determinants of health range from individuals' knowledge and behaviors to community-level characteristics, resources, and conditions. Problematically, the expertise and infrastructure for...

Overview This project evaluates the Housing for Health initiative, which aims to reduce homelessness and the unnecessary use of health care resources, and improve outcomes for vulnerable populations by providing permanent housing and supportive services. Using a propensity score-matched difference...

Overview Research Objective: The delivery of population health services is a cross-sector effort that involves many different organizations in the community. While research has shown the collaborative nature of public health, very little has examined differences in system composition based on the...

Overview Achieving health equity requires building more comprehensive systems. Using data from a nationally representative cohort of U.S. communities, this session will explore the characteristics of Comprehensive Public Health Delivery Systems, the structures and processes needed to build such...