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Access to Care

Access to care is a complex topic that includes the study of whether sufficient health care resources exist to meet people’s needs, as well as whether people experience physical, financial or other barriers to those services. Evidence in this area can span from whether a rural community has enough specialists, like cardiologists, to whether people in an urban community have transportation or language barriers that make seeing health care providers more difficult.

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AcademyHealth Announces the Best of 2025 Annual Research Meeting

Research nominated as the best abstract for each theme from the 2025 Call for Abstracts explores topics related to how prepared hospitals are for the next pandemic, gender differences in primary care physician earnings and outcomes, and methods for decomposing heterogeneous treatment effects.
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Topics HSR Workforce Development HSR Resources & Methods Public & Population Health Health Equity Insurance, Medicare & Medicaid Access to Care Building Healthy Communities
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Community Living Equity Dashboard

This dashboard examines who needs and receives Long Term Services and Supports (LTSS) across the United States and presents data on the percentage and demographic characteristics of racial and ethnic minorities with LTSS needs and their utilization of Medicaid HCBS and institutional LTSS by racial and ethnic categories, as well as other indicators of disparities in community living equity.
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Topics Access to Care
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Advancing Oral Health Equity: A Collaborative Vision for the 2025 ARM Meeting

Building on a previous call to integrate oral health into health care systems and policy frameworks, the Oral Health Interest Group (OHIG) aims to foster interdisciplinary collaborations, reduce disparities, and drive policy innovation ahead of the 2025 Annual Research Meeting.
Posted Dec 4, 2024 By Priyanka Gudsoorkar, BDS, M.B.A., M.P.H., Lisa Heaton, Ph.D., Heather Taylor, Ph.D., MPH, LDH, Sujay A. J. Mehta, D.M.D., M.P.H.
Topics Access to Care Health Equity ARM
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Utilizing Community-Based System Dynamics to Address Health Care System Inequities

In this blog post, Dr. Ayaz Hyder of the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding explores how a community-based system dynamics (CBSD) approach enables facilitators to deeply understand and collaboratively address complex issues. This methodology fosters a more inclusive and insightful problem-solving environment by uniquely centering the community throughout the entire modeling process.
Posted Nov 21, 2024 By Ellie Jorling, M.P.P.
Topics Health Equity Access to Care Delivering Better Care