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Income and Health Inequalities and their Relationship to Population Health Delivery Systems

Presentation: October 26, 2016

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...

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Systems for Action (S4A) is a signature research program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) that studies strategies for aligning medical, social, and public health systems in ways that improve health and health equity. The National Program Office is based at the Colorado School of Public...

$500,000 grant fuels UMN researchers to explore innovation in healthcare funding to address societal health issues

Blog: November 17, 2022

Overview A research team led by University of Minnesota (UMN) Carlson School of Management faculty and the Minnesota Hospital Association explore innovations in how healthcare can better address societal health issues with a new grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Systems for Action...

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

Events: Wednesday, Dec 06, 2017, 12:00am -Wednesday, Dec 06, 2017, 11:59pm

Homeless individuals experience a higher risk for 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...

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ResProg Webinar: Comprehensive Population Health Systems and Hospital Uncompensated Care Costs

Presentation: August 23, 2017

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...

ResProg Webinar: Rural-Urban Differences in Delivery Systems for Population Health Activities

Presentation: September 19, 2018

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...

Equity in Action: Mapping Public Health Networks to Accelerate Change

Presentation: September 02, 2021

Overview On August 25, 2021, a Systems for Action panel presented "Equity in Action: Mapping Public Health Networks to Accelerate Change" at the 2021 Public Health in the Rockies conference in Keystone, CO. A large body of evidence demonstrates how social determinants influence health and health...

Data Share Session for the SRQ Clinic-to-Community Study

Presentation: September 27, 2021

Overview Referrals from clinical settings to social services in the Sarasota, FL community increased during COVID. This Systems for Action study investigates how the local community is handling the increased need for capacity. A community survey was conducted over the spring and summer of 2021...

UNT professor studying Continuum of Care for homeless people during COVID-19 outbreak

Blog: November 18, 2022

Jesus Valero and Hee Soun Jang have been researching services for people experiencing homelessness that are run at a local level and often involve multiple agencies known as Continuum of Care. They are now embarking on a study of how the continuum of care for people experiencing homelessness, which...