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Health Equity

Evidence on how to evaluate, address and improve equity is an important area of work for AcademyHealth and its community of members and partners.

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Under-Utilized Health Services Research Approaches to Support Community Health and Spotlight Community Agency

Significant investments in community health begin with reforming funding approaches and scaling programs that center a community’s experiential knowledge. Participatory grant-making and peer health navigation are two examples of promising health services research approaches that deserve more attention.
Posted Dec 11, 2024 By Kamaria Kaalund
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Advancing Oral Health Equity: A Collaborative Vision for the 2025 ARM Meeting

Building on a previous call to integrate oral health into health care systems and policy frameworks, the Oral Health Interest Group (OHIG) aims to foster interdisciplinary collaborations, reduce disparities, and drive policy innovation ahead of the 2025 Annual Research Meeting.
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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
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Utilizing Community-Based System Dynamics to Address Health Care System Inequities

In this blog post, Dr. Ayaz Hyder of the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding explores how a community-based system dynamics (CBSD) approach enables facilitators to deeply understand and collaboratively address complex issues. This methodology fosters a more inclusive and insightful problem-solving environment by uniquely centering the community throughout the entire modeling process.
Posted Nov 21, 2024 By Ellie Jorling, M.P.P.
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Private Equity’s Move into Behavioral Health Care and What This Could Mean for Disparities in Access to Care

There has been an uptick in private equity firm investment in health care with recent attention being drawn to behavioral health services. Research on the impacts of commercialization of behavioral health is almost non-existent, leaving gaps in how this investment trend may affect access to care for communities of color.
Posted Oct 24, 2024 By Sasha Zabelski, M.S.
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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