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.

Publication

Transforming Health and Health Care: Focus on Florida

Posted Nov 26, 2012

Topics Delivering Better Care Access to Care Costs & Payments HSR Workforce Development Patient & Consumer Engagement Delivering Better Care Access to Care Paying for Care Insurance, Medicare & Medicaid Building Healthy Communities Public & Population Health Using Health Data

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The Future of Health Care for Military Personnel and Veterans

Posted Aug 07, 2012

Topics Access to Care Costs & Payments Delivering Better Care Delivering Better Care Hospitals & Health Systems Insurance, Medicare & Medicaid

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Reducing Prenatal Smoking: The Role of State Policies

Posted Jun 30, 2012

Topics Access to Care Delivering Better Care

Program

Medicaid Demonstration Evaluation Learning Collaborative

AcademyHealth's Evidence-Informed State Health Policy Institute leads this learning collaborative of Medicaid waiver evaluation researchers aimed at examining the policy questions, and study designs, methodologies, data sources and metrics used in Medicaid waiver initiatives.

Topics Insurance, Medicare & Medicaid Access to Care Public & Population Health

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Special Topic Research Programs

The most effective health care policy is informed by objective, rigorous evidence. For 25 years, AcademyHealth served as the national program office for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Changes in Health Care Financing and Organization (HCFO) grantmaking initiative and continues to manage special topic solicitations for the Foundation covering a broad array of topics.

Topics Access to Care Paying for Care Insurance, Medicare & Medicaid

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Evidence-Informed State Health Policy Institute

AcademyHealth’s Evidence-Informed State Health Policy Institute (ESHPI) aims to increase the use of relevant, timely and translatable evidence in state policymaking to improve health and health care quality, outcomes, equity, accessibility and affordability.

Topics Translation, Dissemination & Implementation Insurance, Medicare & Medicaid Access to Care Quality Improvement Using Health Data