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

Reducing Prenatal Smoking: The Role of State Policies

Posted Jun 30, 2012

Topics Access to Care Delivering Better Care

Program

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

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State Health Policy and Technical Assistance

AcademyHealth has a long history of working with state policymakers and health services researchers to support evidence-based decision making at the state level.

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

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Medicaid Demonstration Evaluation Learning Collaborative

AcademyHealth 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