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Public Health Spending And Its Contributions To The Total Spend On Health, Glen P. Mays
Public Health Spending And Its Contributions To The Total Spend On Health, Glen P. Mays
Health Management and Policy Presentations
This presentation provides an overview of recent research on governmental public health expenditures and their interaction with medical spending, carried out through the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation supported initiatives on Public Health Services and Systems Research (PHSSR) and the new Systems for Action research program. This work illustrates the value of tracking resource use across multiple sectors that influence health and well-being in American communities. As such, this work can inform the ongoing dialogue about methodologies for summarizing total health spending for the U.S. and for state and local areas.
Measuring Comprehensive Public Health Delivery Systems And Their Contributions To Population Health, Glen P. Mays, Rick Ingram
Measuring Comprehensive Public Health Delivery Systems And Their Contributions To Population Health, Glen P. Mays, Rick Ingram
Health Management and Policy Presentations
We review methods for measuring the structure of public health delivery systems using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Public Health Systems. A growing body of research using these measures demonstrates how multiple sectors contribute to core public health functions, and how these functions influence community health status over time. We end with a summary of how the Comprehensive Public Health System measure will be used in monitoring the impact of the 21st Century Public Health System initiative.
Measuring Multi-Sector Contributions To Public Health Delivery Systems & Population Health, Glen P. Mays
Measuring Multi-Sector Contributions To Public Health Delivery Systems & Population Health, Glen P. Mays
Health Management and Policy Presentations
The National Longitudinal Survey of Public Health Systems has followed a nationally-representative cohort of U.S. communities since 1998 to measure the scope of public health activities implemented in each community and the range of organizations and sectors that contribute to each activity. With 16 years of follow-up observations, this survey allows us to study the effects of demographic, economic, and policy shocks on public health delivery systems, and estimate the health effects attributable to delivery system change.
Measuring Comprehensive Public Health Delivery Systems And Their Contributions To Population Health, Glen P. Mays
Measuring Comprehensive Public Health Delivery Systems And Their Contributions To Population Health, Glen P. Mays
Health Management and Policy Presentations
Delivery and financing systems for public health services vary widely across U.S. communities, raising questions about the comparative effectiveness and efficiency of alternative structures. We summarize recent approaches for measuring alternative system configurations and estimating their health and economic effects.
Kentucky’S Public Health Strategic Plan: Strengthening Foundational Services & Improving Population Health, Glen P. Mays
Kentucky’S Public Health Strategic Plan: Strengthening Foundational Services & Improving Population Health, Glen P. Mays
Health Management and Policy Presentations
This session examines recent progress toward the 2012 Institute of Medicine recommendation to identify the components and costs of a "minimum package" of public health services and foundational capabilities to be available across the U.S. Research about the health and economic benefits of Foundational Public Health Services has begun to shape Kentucky's strategic plan for transforming the public health system.
Estimating Patient-Centered And Community-Centered Treatment Effects: Examples From Medical Care And Public Health, Glen P. Mays
Estimating Patient-Centered And Community-Centered Treatment Effects: Examples From Medical Care And Public Health, Glen P. Mays
Health Management and Policy Presentations
Health services researchers face growing clinical and policy imperatives for estimating how the effectiveness of medical and public health interventions vary across patients, population groups, and community settings. Recent advances in local instrumental variables estimation techniques allow for the estimation of person-specific and community-specific treatment effects in the presence of unobserved heterogeneity. This presentation explores examples from both medicine and public health following the local IV methods developed by Basu et al. (2013).
Foundational Public Health Services And Health System Reform, Glen P. Mays
Foundational Public Health Services And Health System Reform, Glen P. Mays
Health Management and Policy Presentations
The Institute of Medicine's 2012 report on public health financing recommended a national initiative to identify the components and costs of a "minimum package" of public health programs and infrastructure that should be available in every U.S. community. In response, efforts are now underway to reach consensus on a set of "Foundational Public Health Services" for the nation, and to identify resource requirements for implementing these services. This presentation reviews existing research on the current availability of Foundational Public Health Services across the U.S. and the health and economic effects attributable to these services. We also review progress on ongoing …
Fundamentals Of Economic Evaluation For Public Health, Glen P. Mays, Cezar Mamaril
Fundamentals Of Economic Evaluation For Public Health, Glen P. Mays, Cezar Mamaril
Health Management and Policy Presentations
This workshop provides an overview of the design and implementation of economic evaluation studies of public health programs and policies. Strategies for integrating economic evaluation principles, measurement strategies, analytic approaches, and results into the routine operations of public health agencies are examined.
Medicaid Crowd-Out Of Other Public Health Spending: Modeling Economic & Health Effects, Glen P. Mays
Medicaid Crowd-Out Of Other Public Health Spending: Modeling Economic & Health Effects, Glen P. Mays
Health Management and Policy Presentations
MOTIVATION: Thirty states are expanding Medicaid eligibility under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) as of 2015, and while federal funds cover most costs for newly eligible recipients, states must share the additional costs of covering previously-eligible state residents who enroll in Medicaid. States, together with their local government counterparts, also provide the vast majority (87%) of public sector funds for public health programs designed to promote health and prevent disease and injury on a population-wide basis. Fiscal constraints and generous federal matching funds create strong budgetary incentives for states to channel their health-related spending to Medicaid rather than to other …
Using Network Analysis To Understand Public Health Delivery Systems & Community Health Initiatives, Glen P. Mays
Using Network Analysis To Understand Public Health Delivery Systems & Community Health Initiatives, Glen P. Mays
Health Management and Policy Presentations
The increasingly connected world of health care delivery relies on an expanding frontier of multi-stakeholder structures and processes, from interdisciplinary patient-centered care teams, to virtual accountable care organizations (ACOs), to complex community-level interventions. This session highlights recent advances in applying social network analysis (SNA) methods to study the implementation and impact of these types of innovations. This methods workshop examines the benefits and limits of novel SNA applications based on the expanding availability of large, linkable electronic clinical and administrative data sources with dependent data structures. This paper profiles examples of using SNA principles and methods to study the implementation …
Changes In Public Health System Capital And Long-Run Health And Economic Outcomes: 1998 To 2014, Glen P. Mays, Cezar B. Mamaril
Changes In Public Health System Capital And Long-Run Health And Economic Outcomes: 1998 To 2014, Glen P. Mays, Cezar B. Mamaril
Health Management and Policy Presentations
Research Objective: The Affordable Care Act created new resources and incentives for hospitals, insurers, public health agencies, and others to contribute to disease prevention and health promotion activities, potentially changing the structure of public health delivery systems and expanding the implementation of strategies that improve population health. This study uses data from the 1998-2014 National Longitudinal Survey of Public Health Systems to examine: (1) the extent and nature of change in inter-organizational contributions to public health activities, which we use as indicators of public health “system capital”; and (2) the effects of these changes on preventable mortality and resource use. …
Cost Estimation In Public Health Services & Systems Research, Glen P. Mays
Cost Estimation In Public Health Services & Systems Research, Glen P. Mays
Health Management and Policy Presentations
Considerable uncertainty persists about the resources required to implement public health programs and policies, and about the factors that drive variation in resource needs and utilization across community and institutional settings. This paper reviews several alternative approaches to cost estimation that we have used in the field of public health services & systems research (PHSSR). This review was prepared for an expert panel meeting convened as part of a study commissioned by the U.S. Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) to estimate the costs associated with public health emergency preparedness capabilities.
Geographic Variation In The Delivery Of Public Health Services: Understanding Causes And Consequences, Glen P. Mays
Geographic Variation In The Delivery Of Public Health Services: Understanding Causes And Consequences, Glen P. Mays
Health Management and Policy Presentations
The implementation and reach of evidence-based prevention and public health programs varies widely across the U.S., as does the availability of cross-cutting infrastructure and foundational capabilities required to support these interventions. This talk profiles ongoing research to uncover the causes and consequences of variation in public health delivery. This research points to policy and administrative strategies that can reduce inequities and inefficiencies in public health protections.
Practice-Based Research Networks For Next-Generation Public Health, Glen P. Mays
Practice-Based Research Networks For Next-Generation Public Health, Glen P. Mays
Health Management and Policy Presentations
U.S. public health agencies face an existential imperative to transform their work from a collection of discrete programs and policies into a coherent enterprise for population-wide health improvement. Practice-based research networks (PBRNs) and the advancing science of public health delivery systems can help to achieve this transformation.
Improving Measures Of Public Health Activity At Local And State Levels: The Multi-Network Practice And Outcome Variation Examination Study (Mprove), Glen P. Mays
Health Management and Policy Presentations
Implementation of high-value public health strategies for chronic disease prevention, communicable disease control, and environmental health protection vary widely across U.S. states and communities. The Multi-Network Practice and Outcome Variation Examination Study (MPROVE) supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation creates the measurement and analytic foundation for investigating the causes and consequences of practice variation in public health.
Medicaid Expansions & Public Health Spending: Cross-Subsidies, Complementarities, And Crowd-Out, Glen P. Mays
Medicaid Expansions & Public Health Spending: Cross-Subsidies, Complementarities, And Crowd-Out, Glen P. Mays
Health Management and Policy Presentations
In this paper we estimate the causal impact of state Medicaid enrollment expansions and expenditures on state and local resources allocated to other public health programs and services. Using a quasi-experimental design with instrumental variables estimation, we find evidence that increased Medicaid spending leads to reduced governmental spending on other public health services, consistent with a crowd-out effect. Over 10 years, such crowd-out has the potential to diminish the health status improvements generated through health insurance coverage expansions.
Geographic Variation In The Delivery Of High-Value Public Health Services: Exploring Causes & Consequences, Glen P. Mays
Geographic Variation In The Delivery Of High-Value Public Health Services: Exploring Causes & Consequences, Glen P. Mays
Health Management and Policy Presentations
OBJECTIVES: A growing body of evidence indicates that the delivery of public health activities varies widely across states and communities, creating missed opportunities for prevention as well as inequities in health protection. Measures of quality in public health are needed to guide public health improvement initiatives and to support research on the comparative effectiveness of alternative public health strategies. The Multi-network Practices and Outcomes Variation Examination Study (MPROVE), uses the infrastructure of six Public Health Practice-Based Research Networks (PBRNs) across the U.S. to develop and validate a “starter set” of measures and to analyze geographic variation delivery across diverse public …
How Can Public Health Economics Help Health Systems Focus Upstream?, Glen P. Mays
How Can Public Health Economics Help Health Systems Focus Upstream?, Glen P. Mays
Health Management and Policy Presentations
Research on the health and economic impact of public health strategies can help newly evolving health care delivery systems focus on upstream health determinants and make evidence-informed decisions about resource allocation across the prevention-treatment spectrum. Examples from research underway in the U.S. have particular relevance for Canada's evolving regional health authorities and their integrated approaches to medical care and public health delivery.
Tougher Than Rocket Science, Or Just Messier? Using Research To Improve U.S. Public Health Delivery, Glen P. Mays
Tougher Than Rocket Science, Or Just Messier? Using Research To Improve U.S. Public Health Delivery, Glen P. Mays
Health Management and Policy Presentations
Advances in the field of public health services & systems research (PHSSR) are incorporating complexity in theory and methods to derive strong inferences about the health and economic effects attributable to public health strategies. Opportunities for comparative international research in Canada and the U.S. promise to strengthen these avenues of inquiry.
Public Health Services Research: Informing Public Health Practice & Policy, Glen P. Mays
Public Health Services Research: Informing Public Health Practice & Policy, Glen P. Mays
Health Management and Policy Presentations
Heterogeneity in the mechanisms used for organizing and financing public health strategies creates opportunities for comparative effectiveness research (CER) in public health that examine which organization and financing mechanisms work best, for whom, and under what circumstances. Findings from these types of studies have direct utility in shaping public health policy and practice decisions.
Governmental Public Health And The Economics Of Adaptation To Population Health, Glen P. Mays
Governmental Public Health And The Economics Of Adaptation To Population Health, Glen P. Mays
Health Management and Policy Presentations
Research on the organization and financing of public health strategies offers valuable insight for governmental public health agencies seeking to adapt to a population health improvement perspective under health system reform.
Laboratories And The Value Stream Of Next-Generation Public Health, Glen P. Mays
Laboratories And The Value Stream Of Next-Generation Public Health, Glen P. Mays
Health Management and Policy Presentations
Public health laboratories are the information engines for public health agencies and delivery systems. Measuring the value stream that flows from this information can support objective assessments of the health and economic benefits attributable to laboratory infrastructure and information.
Does Medicaid Crowd Out Other Public Health Spending? Projecting Aca’S Health & Economic Effects, Glen P. Mays
Does Medicaid Crowd Out Other Public Health Spending? Projecting Aca’S Health & Economic Effects, Glen P. Mays
Health Management and Policy Presentations
Research Objective: Twenty-six states are expanding Medicaid eligibility under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2014, and while federal funds cover most costs for newly eligible recipients, states must share the additional costs of covering previously-eligible state residents who newly enroll in Medicaid in response to ACA’s expanded outreach and enrollment incentives. States, together with their local government counterparts, also provide the vast majority (87%) of public sector funds for public health programs designed to promote health and prevent disease and injury on a population-wide basis. Fiscal constraints and generous federal matching funds create strong budgetary incentives for states to …
Maximizing Roi: Laboratories And The Value Of Next-Generation Public Health, Glen P. Mays
Maximizing Roi: Laboratories And The Value Of Next-Generation Public Health, Glen P. Mays
Health Management and Policy Presentations
Laboratories serve as information engines for the public health enterprise, and their importance to population health improvement is likely to grow considerably under U.S. health reform. This session will examine the changing landscape of public health responsibilities within a reforming U.S. health system, and the current and potential roles for public health laboratories in improving the health and economic value of investments in public health. The session examines key changes in the organization, financing, and delivery of public health services that are occurring through innovations to better integrate public health and medical care delivery, and the current and potential roles …
Public Health Services & Systems Research And The Reforming U.S. Health System, Glen P. Mays
Public Health Services & Systems Research And The Reforming U.S. Health System, Glen P. Mays
Health Management and Policy Presentations
This session reviews progress in the field of public health services & systems research (PHSSR), with a specific focus on findings that can inform the implementation and impact of health reform strategies on the U.S. public health system.
Public Health Services & Systems Research: Taking The Pulse Of The Field, Glen P. Mays
Public Health Services & Systems Research: Taking The Pulse Of The Field, Glen P. Mays
Health Management and Policy Presentations
New research is continuing to reveal pathways for improving health and reducing health disparities at reasonable costs through multi-sector public health strategies.
Creating Learning Systems: Lessons From Public Health Practice-Based Research Networks, Glen P. Mays
Creating Learning Systems: Lessons From Public Health Practice-Based Research Networks, Glen P. Mays
Health Management and Policy Presentations
Practice-based research networks (PBRNs) provide powerful mechanisms for implementing research studies that evaluate the health and economic effects of delivery system innovations. This presentation reviews strategies, emerging findings, and lessons learned from PBRNs and related studies conducted in U.S. public health settings. We give special focus to studies that examine multi-organizational and cross-sectoral strategies for population health improvement.
The Public Health Pbrn Program: A Status Update, Glen P. Mays
The Public Health Pbrn Program: A Status Update, Glen P. Mays
Health Management and Policy Presentations
As of 2014 the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Public Health Practice-Based Research Networks Program has engaged more than 1600 U.S. public health agencies in research production and application, generating more than 60 ongoing and completed empirical studies, 70 peer-reviewed publications, and 200 presentations and professional and scientific meetings.
Strengthening The Science Of Public Health Delivery: Complexities In Implementation, Inference & Translation, Glen P. Mays
Strengthening The Science Of Public Health Delivery: Complexities In Implementation, Inference & Translation, Glen P. Mays
Health Management and Policy Presentations
Delivery systems for public health programs and policies are diffuse and heterogeneous across the U.S., reflecting wide variation in the capacity to implement population-level health improvement strategies. This lecture examines strategies for evaluating the causes and consequences of variation in public health delivery across the U.S., with a focus on identifying pathways for improving the health and economic effects of policy and practice.
The Status Of Public Health Services & Systems Research In The Us: Implications For British Columbia, Glen P. Mays
The Status Of Public Health Services & Systems Research In The Us: Implications For British Columbia, Glen P. Mays
Health Management and Policy Presentations
Research on the organization, financing, and delivery of public health services has accelerated in the U.S. in recent years. This applied scholarship has been fueled in part by the changes and natural experiments created by global economic recession and by comprehensive federal and state health reforms. Co-occuring changes in public health organization and financing have occurred in Canada and more specifically in British Columbia, where valuable scholarship on public health delivery is also underway. This presentation reviews the progress and current directions of PHSSR scholarship in the U.S., and identifies opportunities and implications for British Columbia.