Overview Objectives: The Affordable Care Act created new resources and incentives for hospitals, insurers, public health agencies, and others to contribute to disease prevention and health promotion activities, potentially changing the structure of public health delivery systems and expanding the...

Overview This briefing for the journal Health Affairs summarizes results from a new study estimating the mortality effects attributable to multi-sector networks supporting population health improvement activities. Details Project: NALSYS Resources and Results, Preventable Death Rates Fell Where...

Overview Dr. Mays was invited to present before the Strengthening Health Systems through Interprofessional Education (SHINE) Fellowship, National Association of County and City Health Officials and U.S. Centers for Disease Prevention and Control Leaders in Washington, DC. He described how financial...

Overview Dr. Mays was invited to participate in the Georgia Southern University Delta Omega Lecture Series in Statesboro, Georgia. His session profiled recent research on the characteristics of communities that achieve success in improving population health, including the structure of multi...

Overview This Research in Progress session profiles research underway through the Systems for Action Research Program examining how multi-sector population health initiatives may influence income-related disparities in life expectancy across communities. We use 16 years of data from the National...

Overview The provision of community benefits in exchange for tax-exemption status for not-for-profit (NFP) hospitals has been a health policy area of interest especially as it relates to the adequacy of benefits provided relative to the amount of foregone governmental tax revenue. This study...

Overview The Academic Consortium on Criminal Justice Health’s 11 th Academic Health and Policy Conference on Correctional Health 2018 provided a forum for researchers, clinicians, administrators, educators, policy makers, and grant funding leaders to network, share evidence, and learn about emerging...

Overview In 2016, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation launched the Systems for Action Research Program to test new mechanisms for aligning medical, social, and public health delivery systems to improve health and health equity. The Arizona State University received funding as one of the Systems for...

Overview The research team for The Comprehensive Care, Community, and Culture Program presented at the 2017 Academy Health Dissemination and Implementation Conference in Arlington, VA. The presentation was entitled “The Comprehensive, Community, and Culture Program: Early Lessons from Implementation...

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...