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"Queer Health is Ultimate Wealth" Report from the Pride Center San Antonio

In this report, the Pride Center team summarizes the findings of their CRHE project, which examines the circumstances which initiate health care disparities for the LGBTQ+ community and explores what options can mitigate consequences from care that is delayed or withheld entirely.

Posted Feb 04, 2025

Topics Using Health Data Health Equity Building Healthy Communities

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AcademyHealth Launches New Phase of Work on Medical Debt and Trust with the ABIM Foundation

AcademyHealth and the ABIM Foundation are collaborating on a two-year initiative, Advancing Trust: A Focus on Medical Debt, which aims to address the widespread implications of health system-based medical debt policies and practices while exploring solutions to this systemic issue.

Posted Jan 2, 2025 By Taylor Dunlap

Topics Building Healthy Communities Health Equity

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Walking Two Worlds - Indigenous Health Equity and the Need for Representation in Health Care: An Interview with Arizona State University

In the fourth of a series of interviews with our Community Research for Health Equity grantees, AcademyHealth interviews Kristin Payestewa from Arizona State University to learn more about their project goals and findings during National Native American Heritage Month.

Posted Nov 22, 2024 By Maura Dugan, M.P.H.

Topics Health Equity Building Healthy Communities

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New Research Will Examine Inequities in the Diagnostic Process

AcademyHealth, with support from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, awarded four grants to study and address diagnostic inequities and improve patient outcomes in behavioral health, cardiology, pediatrics, and oncology.

Posted Oct 21, 2024 By Jahneh Haylett

Topics Delivering Better Care Health Equity Access to Care Building Healthy Communities

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Developing a Collaborative Research Agenda for High-Value, Equitable Health Care

Led by AcademyHealth and funded by The Donaghue Foundation, this final report outlines a collaborative process and research priorities for achieving health care that is both high value and equitable.

Posted Oct 04, 2024

Topics Building Healthy Communities Delivering Better Care Paying for Care

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Emerging and Understudied Topics at the Intersection of Health Services Research and Climate Change

Research in health services is essential for informing policy decisions to address and forestall the detrimental health consequences of climate change. Part 2 of this blog series identifies priority health services research areas for continued health system reform to address the climate crisis.

Posted Sep 10, 2024 By Kamaria Kaalund

Topics Advocacy Building Healthy Communities Hospitals & Health Systems Health Equity

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White Paper from Think Kids' CRHE project, "When All Are Counted"

In this white paper, the Think Kids team summarizes the findings of their recently completed CRHE project, "When All Are Counted," which examined how West Virginia compiles and reports health surveillance data.

Posted Aug 22, 2024

Topics Using Health Data Health Equity Building Healthy Communities

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Informing and Evaluating Policy to Further Health Equity: Key Takeaways from ARM

An AcademyHealth member’s perspective on her most memorable policy-oriented 2024 Annual Research Meeting sessions.

Posted Aug 8, 2024 By Jessica McCann, M.P.H.

Topics Delivering Better Care Health Equity Building Healthy Communities ARM

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Building Trust: A Critical Value for Health Care

In the second of a three-part blog series, AcademyHealth interviews Thomas H. Lee, M.D., Internist and Cardiologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Chief Medical Officer at Press Ganey about opportunities for enhancing trust in health care.

Posted Aug 5, 2024 By Taylor Dunlap

Topics Hospitals & Health Systems Building Healthy Communities

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Preliminary Findings from Think Kids’ CRHE project, “When All Are Counted”

In this document, the Think Kids team shares preliminary findings from their recently completed CRHE project, “When All Are Counted,” which examined how West Virginia compiles and reports health surveillance data.

Posted Jul 23, 2024

Topics Using Health Data Health Equity Building Healthy Communities