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 April 12, 2017 Webinar Presentation Public health system capital is defined by the scope of population health activities, network of multi-sector relationships, and the coordination of actions that contribute to the implementation core public health activities. A better understanding of how...

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 shared Community Networks and Population Health: What We Know and Still Need to Learn with the Partners for the Advancement of Community Engaged Research (PACER) and participated in a lengthy discussion period with the participants at the conclusion of his presentation. PACER was...

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 Research indicates that the United States lags behind other high-income countries in public health. This lag relates directly to variable health system quality across U.S. communities, which have different resource bases, different healthcare needs, and different institutional structures to...

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...