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...

Overview The Affordable Care Act (ACA), along with Medicaid expansion, was expected to reduce the rising burden on hospitals from uncompensated care provision to uninsured people while creating new resources and incentives for hospitals to contribute to disease prevention and health promotion...

Overview Economics, access to health services, genetics, the environment, geography, age – all of these and more form a complex web of interdependent influences on wellbeing. The Arizona Wellbeing Commons brings scientists, clinicians and partners together in a powerful network of researchers to...

Overview Population and individual health are significantly influenced by social determinants that range from individuals’ knowledge and behaviors to community-level characteristics, resources, and conditions. The expertise and infrastructure to address these multiple and diverse challenges are...

Overview The research team presented at the 2019 Academy Health Annual Research Meeting in Washington, DC. The full abstract for the poster presentation entitled, “Reasons for Referral to Social Worker in a Primary Healthcare Setting: A Market Basket Analysis and Natural Language Processing Approach...