Public & Population Health

Developed as part of AcademyHealth's Payment Reform for Population Health project, this report explains how changing the we pay for health and health care, can incentivize the health improvements and health care cost outcomes we want. 

Highlighting research presented at the AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting (ARM) in June 2018, Rebecca Bruno of MITRE, an AcademyHealth organizational affiliate, points to solutions for addressing social determinants of health and improving health outcomes and reduced costs of care for the Medicaid population.

This evidence synthesis commissioned by AcademyHealth provides a review of public health systems research that has shown a return on investment.

Recent findings from AcademyHealth’s Payment Reform for Population Health Initiative, featured in Health Affairs yesterday, identify several strategies to leverage current Medicaid authorities to promote and provide prevention services.

AcademyHealth Senior Scholar in Residence and Adolescents and Children Together for Health (ACT for Health) Board Member, Denise Dougherty, Ph.D., shares current and ongoing work aimed at enhancing adolescent wellbeing.

Large manufacturing companies, which are often based in communities with relatively high rates of poor health behaviors and health outcomes, are well positioned to impact the health of those communities.

AcademyHealth collaborated with Nemours Children’s Health System to help state Medicaid programs test approaches to financing upstream prevention and addressing social determinants of health. This brief highlights lessons learned and synthesizes important takeaways from that work.

Highlighting work in Maryland, this brief outlines how a state Medicaid agency can maximize existing authority to delivery nutritional counseling in Head Start settings in an effort to prevent obesity.

Medicaid cannot address and invest in social determinants on its own. This brief highlights Head Start as a natural partner offering significant opportunity for alignment of care coordination and service delivery with Medicaid.

This brief explores the unique role community health workers can play in addressing the social needs that have tremendous impact on the burden of chronic disease.