Caring for Kids the Right Way: Key Components of Children’s Care Coordination
This report focuses on the care coordination functions that support the interventions and services within a whole-child approach to children’s health care.
Marriage Equality & Health: Importance and New Threats to Obergefell v. Hodges
AcademyHealth member Gilbert Gonzales highlights the impact of marriage equality for LGBTQ+ health and equity, as well as other health disparities that need to be addressed by the field.
Lack of Data Puts Gender Diverse Populations at Risk of Poor Health Outcomes
AcademyHealth Member and 2021 Delivery System Science Fellow Abby Mulcahy emphasizes that health services researchers focusing on gender diverse populations are still largely focused on detecting disparities over meaningful interventions.
Sessions Highlight Importance of Addressing Structural Racism to Improve Care and Policy Approaches
Co-lead for the Annual Research Meeting (ARM) Structural Racism, Disparities, and Equity in Health theme J’Mag Karbeah spotlights the vast number of sessions and presentations under this theme on the impact of structural racism on health inequities, health care access, and patient quality of care.
Research in Transforming Health and Healthcare Systems 2022 Grantees
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation awarded five grants to support analyses that investigate the effects of recent Medicaid policy changes and those enacted in response to the COVID-19 pandemic on people of color, people with disabilities, the LGBTQ community, and other historically marginalized communities.
Webinar: Building the Evidence Base for Trust Research in Health Care
This webinar, hosted by the Research Community on Trust, highlights the importance of building trust for an effective health care system and strengthening the evidence base on trust and trust-related issues in health care.
AcademyHealth Announces the Best of 2022 Annual Research Meeting
Research nominated as the best abstract for each theme from the 2022 Call for Abstracts explores topics related to patient and consumer needs, Medicaid access and coverage, COVID-19, and more.
Charting a Path for the Nursing Profession to Advance Health Equity: Where Does the Evidence Lead?
An upcoming AcademyHealth webinar provides a behind-the-scenes look at how a research team generated evidence in real time for the NAM report on the Future of Nursing
Improving Health Equity in Medicaid: Federal Priorities, Challenges, and Opportunities
The final post of the Health Equity Meeting blog series explores federal priorities and initiatives undertaken by the Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services and Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation targeted towards advancing health equity in Medicaid.
Conference Highlights Opportunities for a More Equitable, Just Health Care System
The 2022 Health Datapalooza and National Health Policy Conference featured issues related to health care organization and delivery and how those aspects affect quality and outcomes, with an emphasis on advancing equity.