Public and population health evidence helps us understand how we deliver and integrate services that affect the health of communities, and how we promote healthy communities.
The aftershocks of the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health decision overturning the constitutional right to abortion continue to reverberate through the U.S. health care system. This brief and accompanying research agenda highlight priority research topics, methods, and recommendations for health services research to examine these wide-ranging implications on reproductive health care, health equity, and beyond.
The aftershocks of the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health decision overturning the constitutional right to abortion continue to reverberate through the U.S. health care system. This brief and accompanying research agenda highlight priority research topics, methods, and recommendations for health services research to examine these wide-ranging implications on reproductive health care, health equity, and beyond.
2022 NCHS/AcademyHealth Data Visualization Challenge winners used publicly available data to explore patterns in electronic health record availability and access, and how social determinants of health may impact access.
AcademyHealth Public Voices fellows offer ways to improve Black maternal mortality and perinatal health through breastfeeding and programs to support Black lactation professionals.
Domains and research questions to guide public health services and systems research (PHSSR) were generated through a one-year multi-stage, participatory process.
AcademyHealth identified reasons for the lack of sustained investment in the public health services and systems research (PHSSR) field in a report outlining the conditions needed to drive investment in, support for, and action on a renewed research agenda.
Thought leaders in philosophy, ethics, the arts, and community organizing come together in this four-part interview series to reflect on the role that trust plays in health care.
In honor of World AIDS Day, and in alignment with AcademyHealth and the Weitzman Institute’s commitment to center the voices of lived experiences, this blog highlights patient/patient partners’ perspectives on challenges that patients living with HIV/AIDs experience in obtaining oral health care.
Diverse definitions of rurality among government agencies make it difficult to understand rural health. Standardizing definitions and collecting data on disparities within and between rural communities are important for researchers to better inform policy and practice.
Individuals with disabilities face many health disparities, as do rural residents. The recent NIH designation of people with disabilities as a population with health disparities presents a needed opportunity for robust research at the intersection of disability, rurality, and health.
