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Using Global Budgets and Multi-Sector Teams to Align Systems in Vermont

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This study tests the effectiveness of a global all-payer payment model combined with multi-sector community health teams in improving health and social outcomes for Vermont residents. The Vermont Blueprint for Health initiative is among the most ambitious statewide health financing reforms now...

Testing a Shared Decision-making Model for Health and Social Service Delivery in East Harlem

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Lack of coordination of health and community services with individual agencies working in isolation leads to wasted resources and poor outcomes for the most vulnerable in our nation’s neighborhoods. One method of addressing this lack of coordination is by adopting a place-based system integration...

Integrating Cross-Sectoral Health and Social Services for the Homeless

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Members of the homeless population bear greater risk than other populations for many preventable diseases but are less likely to access healthcare systems. These individuals need to be engaged by multiple systems to access services and support related not only to stable housing but also to reliable...

ResProg Webinar | Systems in Focus Panel: Local Public Health Governing Boards

Events: Wednesday, Jul 07, 2021, 12:00am -Wednesday, Jul 07, 2021, 11:59pm

The COVID-19 pandemic vividly demonstrates that public health agencies are called upon to develop and implement high-consequence policies and programs in the context of imperfect information and considerable uncertainty. Organizations operating in such circumstances are likely to benefit from the...

New Research: Collaborative Networks of Organizations are Effective in Addressing Complex Health Issues

News: November 15, 2016

LEXINGTON, KY (Nov. 15, 2016) — Rachel Hogg, an assistant professor at the University of Kentucky College of Health Sciences, is lead author of an article published in Health Affairs, the leading journal of health policy thought and research. The article, “ Insights into Collaborative Networks of...

WEBINAR: Housing for Health: Cross-Sector Impacts of Supportive Housing for Homeless High Users of Health Care

Events: Wednesday, Feb 27, 2019, 12:00am -Wednesday, Feb 27, 2019, 11:59pm

Homeless individuals experience a higher risk of mortality, chronic illness, and mental health disorders, and are often high utilizers of healthcare. Since 2012, the Housing for Health (HFH) initiative created by the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services (DHS) seeks to reduce homelessness...

Financing and Service Delivery Integration for Mental Illness and Substance Abuse

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Project Summary Fragmentation and lack of coordination between health care delivery, public health, and community service systems represent a significant barrier to improving health, well-being, and equity. Drawing from health care, public health, social work, criminology, health economics, and...

PRESENTATION: S4A Leadership and Grantees to Share Findings at Annual American Public Health Association Meeting and Expo

Events: Wednesday, Nov 14, 2018, 12:00am -Wednesday, Nov 14, 2018, 11:59pm

Systems for Action leaders and grantees will present their latest findings at the 2018 American Public Health Association (APHA) Annual Meeting & Expo in San Diego, Ca

Aligning Health and Social Systems to Improve Population Health: Networks, Governance and Information (IAPHS 2018)

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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...

The Impact of Integrating Behavioral Health with Temporary Assistance for Needy Families to Build a Culture of Health across Two-Generations

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The prolonged activation of stress response systems among children responding to adversity such as homelessness, hunger, or neglect, is a predictor of poor health and continued poverty among low-income families. To study the health and economic impacts and systems implications of integrated services...