The explosion of health-related data has created new opportunities to understand how health care is delivered, paid for and preserved. Health services evidence helps us understand how to identify, validate, share and analyze data to improve health.
In this article, the authors suggest that by setting clear health equity objectives, disaggregating data by REAL, and implementing strategies informed by social context, we may prevent or lessen health inequities and be better positioned to address the underlying contributors to health that require more equitable infrastructure and broad changes in policies.
This editorial argues that more qualitative research is needed to evaluate the intended and unintended findings from interventions and highlights the benefits that men’s health equity can gain from embracing dissemination and implementation science as a tool to systematically design, implement, refine, and sustain interventions.
Voices of a New Paradigm: The AcademyHealth Paradigm Project is profiling leaders whose work helps point Health Services Research in a new direction. Some are new to HSR, others may just be new to us – leaders in other fields whose work is inspiring or applicable. All are challenging the limits of the current paradigm in ways that help make HSR more effective and have greater impact.
AcademyHealth received new funding from the CDC to extend our current immunization community of practice. As the original community of practice ends, we highlight a few key successes from our participating states.
The Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) recently awarded two Eugene Washington PCORI Engagement Award COVID-19 Enhancements to AcademyHealth’s Evidence-Informed State Health Policy Institute to explore how Medicaid can examine the impact on beneficiaries and the program.
Written by Kentucky members of AcademyHealth’s State-University Partnership Learning Network, this issue brief distills how the Family First Prevention Services Act changes child welfare policy and practice, and offers insights on how data from state Comprehensive Child Welfare Information Systems (CCWIS) can be used to produce high-quality research and evaluation.
This publication is a part of a series in collaboration with Milbank Memorial Fund building on findings from AcademyHealth's Medicaid Outcomes Distributed Research Network and focuses on the policy options states can leverage to impact the quality of OUD treatment for Medicaid enrollees.
By partnering with state agencies, public universities have an opportunity to conduct research and engaged scholarship to advance their mission of public service.
Established state-university partnerships support evidence-based state health policy and practice to transform Medicaid-specific care and improve outcomes.
