Overview The 2017 conference, titled Arizona’s Opioid Epidemic: Evidence – Interventions – Policy, will present recent Arizona opioid epidemic data and will explore interventions and future policy initiatives within many sectors including: public health, healthcare and managed care systems, first...

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 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 With doubts over capability and emergency preparedness of local public health department, S4A investigators* at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Health used spending data to determine if pre-COVID local health department spending shielded county populations from COVID-19 early in the...

Overview This study examines how the allocation of resources across medical, social, and public health services at the county level influences the relative success in controlling the progression of the COVID-19 pandemic. The project focuses on resource allocation decisions across sectors as a...

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 The United States spends more money on healthcare than other developed countries, yet experiences significantly worse health outcomes. But, understanding healthcare spending alone is not enough. While the importance of nonmedical barriers to health, such as lack of adequate housing...

Overview The United States spends more money on healthcare than other developed countries while experiencing significantly worse health outcomes, indicating a need to explore health drivers other than healthcare spending. While nonmedical barriers such as lack of adequate housing, education, and...