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Access to care is a complex topic that includes the study of whether sufficient health care resources exist to meet people’s needs, as well as whether people experience physical, financial or other barriers to those services. Evidence in this area can span from whether a rural community has enough specialists, like cardiologists, to whether people in an urban community have transportation or language barriers that make seeing health care providers more difficult.

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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.
Posted Dec 4, 2024 By Priyanka Gudsoorkar, BDS, M.B.A., M.P.H., Lisa Heaton, Ph.D., Heather Taylor, Ph.D., MPH, LDH, Sujay A. J. Mehta, D.M.D., M.P.H.
Topics Access to Care Health Equity ARM
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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.
Topics Health Equity Access to Care Delivering Better Care
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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.
Topics Access to Care Health Equity
Blog Post How MODRN and SUPLN are Supporting the Next Generation of Researchers

How MODRN and SUPLN are Supporting the Next Generation of Researchers

State-university partnerships create opportunities for early career researchers to engage in impactful, data-driven policy work that would be difficult to achieve through traditional academic paths alone.
Posted Oct 15, 2024 By Lindsey Hammerslag, Ph.D., Lindsay Allen, Ph.D., M.A., Anna Austin, Ph.D., Carrie Fry, Ph.D.
Topics Public & Population Health Insurance, Medicare & Medicaid Access to Care Quality Improvement
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The Value of Community in Studying the Impacts of the Dobbs Decision

Reflecting on a networking session at the Annual Research Meeting, researchers studying the impacts of the Dobbs decision elevate challenges, successes, and opportunities to collaborate with others doing this work, such as through AcademyHealth’s new Research Community on the Equity Impacts of Dobbs.
Posted Aug 21, 2024 By Nicole Quinones, M.P.H., Aakriti Shrestha, M.P.H., Hao Yu, Ph.D., Danielle DeCosta, M.P.H.
Topics Health Equity Public & Population Health Hospitals & Health Systems Access to Care Using Health Data