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Strong Community Networks Lead to Long-term Health Improvements

Blog: January 19, 2017

Overview A national study funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and published by lead author Glen Mays, UK College of Public Health, provides strong evidence that community networks can lead to long-term population health improvements. Details Project: Multi-Sector Population Health...

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...

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...

Financing and Service Delivery Integration for Mental Illness and Substance Abuse (Research-in-Progress Webinar Series)

Presentation: December 05, 2018

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...

Multi-Sector Research to Enhance Collaboration, Accelerate Alignment, and Reduce Policy Cycle Time to Advance the Culture of Health (Policy Conference on Correctional Health)

Presentation: March 23, 2018

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...

Community Participatory Research to Enhance Multisector Collaboration, Accelerate Alignment, and Reduce Policy Cycle Time to Advance the Culture of Health (Dissemination and Implementation Conference 2017)

Presentation: December 05, 2017

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...

Modeling System Fragmentation and Alignment Opportunities Across Medical, Behavioral, and Criminal Justice Systems for Persons with Mental Illness (AcademyHealth ARM 2016)

Presentation: February 26, 2016

Overview The delivery and financing systems for medical care, public health, and social and community services are powerful determinants of health and wellbeing for families and communities across the U.S. Unfortunately, these systems interact in complex and often poorly understood ways through...