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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...