Building Healthy Communities

Health is about more than health care. Where we live, work, and play affects our health. Health services research provides evidence on the factors that affect, and support, the health of communities.

Blog Post

Health Datapalooza 2019 Features High Profile Global Technology Policy Discussions

Greg Downing, AcademyHealth senior scholar in residence and Founder of Innovation Horizons, LLC, highlights several international sessions at this year’s Health Datapalooza.

Posted Mar 12, 2019 By Gregory Downing, D.O., Ph.D.

Topics Data Sharing Data Sources Building Healthy Communities Health Datapalooza

Past Event

2019 National Health Policy Conference

The National Health Policy Conference took place February 4-5, 2019 at the Marriott Marquis in Washington, D.C.

Date & Time February 4-5, 2019 Location Marriott Marquis, Washington, D.C.

Topics Advocacy Building Healthy Communities Delivering Better Care

Blog Post

AcademyHealth Members Examine Barriers to Telehealth and Opportunities to Expand Its Use

December’s issue of Health Affairs features 11 articles by AcademyHealth members on the theme of telehealth.

Posted Jan 30, 2019 By Emily Chun

Topics Delivering Better Care Building Healthy Communities Access to Care

Past Event

11th Annual Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation in Health

Another record-breaking year at the Science of D&I Conference.

Date & Time December 3-5, 2018 Location Renaissance Washington D.C.

Topics Translation, Dissemination & Implementation Delivering Better Care Building Healthy Communities

Publication

Recommendations for Advancing Payment Strategies to Address Child and Family Well-Being

This report highlights the importance of investing in the well-being of children and families and makes three recommendations for payment approaches to support the promoting of positive social and emotional determinants of health and the mitigation of Adverse Childhood Experiences.

Posted Nov 30, 2018

Topics Delivering Better Care Building Healthy Communities Paying for Care

Publication

Poor Community Health and Employee Mental Stress Linked to Poor Job Performance at US Manufacturing Plants

Employees living in counties with poor community health outcomes had considerably higher rates of absenteeism and tardiness.

Posted Oct 18, 2018

Topics Building Healthy Communities Public & Population Health

Blog Post

Diverse Disciplines Needed to Overcome Persistent Oral Health Challenges

AcademyHealth is a partner organization of Clinical Scholars, a leadership development program for practitioners from diverse fields of health care. The program features two teams working innovatively to tackle oral health challenges in Georgia and Minnesota.

Posted Oct 18, 2018

Topics HSR Resources & Methods Building Healthy Communities

Blog Post

What role does community health play in employee performance at American manufacturing companies?

Recent study findings, highlighted this week on the Health Affairs blog, suggest that poor community health negatively affects workers’ performance.

Posted Oct 12, 2018 By Megan Collado, M.P.H.

Topics Building Healthy Communities Public & Population Health

Publication

Review Assesses Use of ROI Evidence to Inform Policymaking on Public Health Issues

AcademyHealth examined the extent to which return on investment evidence is used to inform policymaking affecting public health and multi-sector work, and identified opportunities to advance its use.

Posted Sep 30, 2018

Topics HSR Resources & Methods Building Healthy Communities Public & Population Health Paying for Care

Blog Post

When It Comes to Collaboration, Sectors Emphasize Technical Aspects Over Cultural Ones

In a review of technical documents and toolkits on interoperability, what we found was almost as interesting as what we didn’t.

Posted Aug 24, 2018 By Margo Edmunds, Ph.D.

Topics Data Sharing Data Sources Building Healthy Communities