Overview The Affordable Care Act began in 2011 to establish new resources and incentives for hospitals, insurers, public health agencies, and others to contribute to disease prevention and health promotion activities, potentially expanding the implementation of strategies that improve population...

Overview An expanding body of research-tested public health interventions exist to prevent disease and injury and promote health on a population-wide basis, such as those profiled in the CDC’s Guide to Community Prevention Services, but adoption and implementation of these strategies vary widely...

Overview The Affordable Care Act and larger economic forces are leading both health care providers and public health agencies to renegotiate their roles and responsibilities within the U.S. health system. This session reviews major changes occurring in both health care and public health delivery...

Overview The S4A intramural research team used a logistic regression model for the relationship between public health system capital and efforts aimed at reducing health inequities and disparities. They find stronger public health systems are more likely to engage in efforts to address health...

Overview Dr. Glen Mays will joined experts from around the nation in Madisonville, Ky., for the 9th Annual Dr. Loman C. Trover Symposium. This year the theme was Building Bridges to Impact Community Health and the event drew attendees from the medical, public health, and social service sectors. Mr...

Overview This workshop for the Mississippi Department of Health examines research about the health and economic value of multi-sector population health improvement strategies, including studies conducted through the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Systems for Action research program. We provide...

Overview Social, economic, and environmental conditions strongly influence health status for individuals and communities. Unfortunately, the services designed to improve these conditions – such as housing, transportation, nutrition, and economic assistance – are often disconnected from the medical...

Overview This presentation provides an overview of recent research on governmental public health expenditures and their interaction with medical spending, carried out through the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation supported initiatives on Public Health Services and Systems Research (PHSSR) and the new...

Overview This session provides an overview of recent research on the implementation and impact of population health improvement strategies across the U.S. We examine key components of strategies designed for "whole population" improvement, as well as evidence about the health and economic effects of...

Overview Research Objective: Landmark research by Raj Chetty and colleagues finds wide geographic and intertemporal variation in the relationship between income and life expectancy in the U.S., using 1.4 billion administrative tax records from the IRS linked to nearly 7 million federal death records...