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Full-Text Articles in Health Economics
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
Glen Mays
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 Improveu.S. Public Health Delivery, Glen P. Mays
Tougher Than Rocket Science, Or Just Messier? Using Research To Improveu.S. Public Health Delivery, Glen P. Mays
Glen Mays
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
Glen Mays
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.
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
Glen Mays
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.
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
Glen Mays
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.
Learning From Networks: Care Transitions, Market Competition, And Community Interventions, Glen P. Mays
Learning From Networks: Care Transitions, Market Competition, And Community Interventions, Glen P. Mays
Glen Mays
Social network analysis methods offer many avenues of inquiry for studying new developments in health policy and health care delivery. The expanding availability of large linkable electronic clinical and administrative data sources allows for novel SNA applications with dependent data structures. Opportunities include the study of delivery patterns within accountable care organizations (ACOs), and other multi-provider networks, price and quality competition within new health insurance exchanges, and population health effects attributable to complex community-level interventions.
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
Glen Mays
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 …
Public Health Services & Systems Researchand The Reforming U.S. Health System, Glen P. Mays
Public Health Services & Systems Researchand The Reforming U.S. Health System, Glen P. Mays
Glen Mays
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.
Producing Population Health: Collective Action Requires Infrastructure, Incentives And Evidence, Glen P. Mays
Producing Population Health: Collective Action Requires Infrastructure, Incentives And Evidence, Glen P. Mays
Glen Mays
Population health improvement strategies are collective action problems that require targeted infrastructure, incentives, and information to succeed. Research on collective action problems and solutions in public health and other spheres of practice offer insight for the successful scale and spread of population health innovations.
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
Glen Mays
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.
Health Reform Implementation: Update And Implications For Kentucky, Glen P. Mays
Health Reform Implementation: Update And Implications For Kentucky, Glen P. Mays
Glen Mays
This talk reviews the progress of health reform implementation in Kentucky with a focus on opportunities for aligning systems for medical care, public health, and social support delivery to improve population health.
Unifying Systems For Population Health: Infrastructure, Incentives & Evidence For Collective Action, Glen P. Mays
Unifying Systems For Population Health: Infrastructure, Incentives & Evidence For Collective Action, Glen P. Mays
Glen Mays
This presentation, part of the SBM Presidential Symposium on Aligning Family, Clinical, and Community Systems, reviews the collective action problems that are commonly encountered in implementing multi-sector population health improvement strategies, and examines research on ways of using public health strategies and infrastructure to overcome these problems.
Public Health Services & Systems Research Inventory, Ann V. Kelly, Anna G. Hoover, Glen P. Mays
Public Health Services & Systems Research Inventory, Ann V. Kelly, Anna G. Hoover, Glen P. Mays
Glen Mays
This inventory summarizes research projects funded through the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Public Health Services & Systems Research (PHSSR) program, including studies supported by the National Coordinating Center for PHSSR, the Public Health Practice-Based Research Networks Program, and the National Network of Public Health Institutes.
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
Glen Mays
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.
Estimating The Costs Of Foundational Public Health Capabilities: A Recommended Methodology, Glen P. Mays
Estimating The Costs Of Foundational Public Health Capabilities: A Recommended Methodology, Glen P. Mays
Glen Mays
The Institute of Medicine’s 2012 report on public health financing recommended the convening of expert panels to identify the components and costs of a “minimum package of public health services” that should be available in every U.S. community. The report recommended that this minimum package include a core set of public health programs that target specific, high-priority preventable health problems and risks, along with a set of “foundational public health capabilities” that are deemed necessary to support the successful implementation of public health programs and policies. In response to this recommendation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, in collaboration with the …
Bibliography Of The Public Health Pbrn Program: 2008-2013., Glen P. Mays
Bibliography Of The Public Health Pbrn Program: 2008-2013., Glen P. Mays
Glen Mays
This report inventories the research products of the Public Health Practice-Based Research Networks (PBRN) Program during its initial six years of development. The Public Health PBRNs comprise state and local public health organizations and university-based research centers that collaborate to study the implementation and impact of novel strategies involving the organization, financing, and delivery of public health strategies. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation provide primary support for the PBRNs during this initial six-year period.
The National Longitudinal Survey Of Public Health Systems: Selected Findings And Applications For Monitoring The Affordable Care Act, Glen P. Mays
Glen Mays
This presentation reviews the National Longitudinal Survey of Public Health Systems and its applicability for monitoring the effects of the Affordable Care Act on public health delivery within the U.S.
Estimating The Costs Of Public Health Services: Progress On The Institute Of Medicine Recommendations, Glen P. Mays
Estimating The Costs Of Public Health Services: Progress On The Institute Of Medicine Recommendations, Glen P. Mays
Glen Mays
The National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine recommended in 2012 that the federal government undertake work to identify the components and costs of a "minimum package" of public health programs, services, and capabilities that should be available in every American community. This presentation summarizes work that is currently underway through the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-supported Public Health Practice-Based Research Networks (PBRN) Program to estimate the costs of public health delivery.
New Health Delivery Networks: Merging Public Health And Health Care Systems, Glen P. Mays
New Health Delivery Networks: Merging Public Health And Health Care Systems, Glen P. Mays
Glen Mays
Incomplete coordination between medical care and public health delivery systems can result in significant missed opportunities for improving population health and constraining overall resource use. This lecture uses insight from the field of public health services and systems research (PHSSR) to examine: (1) why medical care and public health systems often fail to connect; (2) what are the potential health and economic consequences of these failures; and (3) what are the opportunities for connecting medical care and public health delivery to improve population health.
Who Benefits From Public Health Spending And How Long Does It Take: Estimating Community-Specific Spending Effects, Glen Mays
Glen Mays
Objectives: Spending on public health and prevention strategies varies widely across states and communities. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA) authorized the largest expansion in federal public health spending in decades, with the goals of improving population health and helping to moderate growth in medical care spending. To produce evidence needed to inform these investments, this study (1) estimates the effects of public health spending patterns within communities on preventable mortality and subsequent medical care spending; and (2) uses the methods of local instrumental variables developed by Heckman and Vytlacil and Basu to estimate how the …
Recessions, Risks, And Reforms: Changes In Interorganizational Efforts To Improve Public Health, Glen Mays
Recessions, Risks, And Reforms: Changes In Interorganizational Efforts To Improve Public Health, Glen Mays
Glen Mays
Research Objective: The Affordable Care Act created new incentives for hospitals, insurers, employers, public health agencies, and others to contribute to activities designed to promote health and prevent disease an injury. At the same time, the economic recession has constrained government and private sector spending on health and health care, necessitating changes in the scope and scale of public health delivery. This study uses data from the 1998-2012 National Longitudinal Survey of Public Health Systems to examine: (1) the extent and nature of change in inter-organizational contributions to public health activities, with a focus on hospitals, insurers, employers, and primary …
Public Health Services And Systems Research: Building The Science Of Public Health Delivery, Glen Mays
Public Health Services And Systems Research: Building The Science Of Public Health Delivery, Glen Mays
Glen Mays
The extreme heterogeneity in how public health activities are organized, financed, and implemented across U.S. states and communities provides compelling opportunities for research on the comparative effectiveness and efficiency of public health delivery. This talk highlights some of the most compelling and policy-relevant opportunities for research on public health organization and financing issues, and examines some of the ongoing studies in the field.
Cost Estimation Methods And Foundational Public Health Capabilities, Glen Mays
Cost Estimation Methods And Foundational Public Health Capabilities, Glen Mays
Glen Mays
The National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medine recently recommended that the federal government identify the components and costs of a "minimum package of public health services" and "foundational public health capabilities" that should be universally available across the U.S. This presentation reviews costing methods that can be used for identifying the costs required to establish "foundational public health capabilities" at state and local levels within the U.S. public health system.
Public Health Services & Systems Research: Concepts, Methods, And Emerging Findings, Glen Mays
Public Health Services & Systems Research: Concepts, Methods, And Emerging Findings, Glen Mays
Glen Mays
The field of public health services & systems research (PHSSR) increasingly is addressing the question of how to assess the value of investments in public health programs, infrastructure, and delivery systems. Progress in quasi-experimental research designs, measurement, estimation techniques, and data sources are yielding important insight
Health System Contributions To Public Health Activities Amid Policy And Economic Change: Estimating Complementarities, Substitutions, And Network Effects, Glen P. Mays
Glen Mays
Research Objective: The Affordable Care Act created new incentives for hospitals, insurers, employers, public health agencies, and others to contribute to activities designed to promote health and prevent disease an injury, potentially changing the structure of public health delivery systems and expanding the delivery of strategies that improve population health. At the same time, the economic recession has constrained government and private sector spending on health and health care, necessitating changes in the scope and scale of public health delivery. This study uses data from the 1998-2012 National Longitudinal Survey of Public Health Systems to examine: (1) the extent and …
Hospital Contributions To Public Health Activities Before And After Aca: Incentives, Constraints, And Crowd-Out, Glen P. Mays
Hospital Contributions To Public Health Activities Before And After Aca: Incentives, Constraints, And Crowd-Out, Glen P. Mays
Glen Mays
Research Objective: The Affordable Care Act created enhanced IRS requirements for not-for-profit hospitals regarding the provision of community benefits, potentially stimulating new approaches to community health needs assessment, priority setting, and engagement with public health agencies and other community stakeholders. Yet the economic downturn has constrained hospital earnings and increased demand for uncompensated care, potentially crowding out hospital contributions to public health activities. This study uses data from 1998-2012 on a national cohort of communities to examine: (1) the extent and nature of change in hospital contributions to public health activities; and (2) the economic, institutional, and policy-related factors that …
Analyzing Return On Investment In Public Health: Implications And Future Directions, Glen P. Mays
Analyzing Return On Investment In Public Health: Implications And Future Directions, Glen P. Mays
Glen Mays
Return on investment (ROI) analyses of public health programs, policies, and services are being undertaken with increasing frequency to provide assessments of the value of these activities. This presentation reviews current initiatives and future directions for improving the quality of ROI studies and their application to real-world public health policy and administrative decisions.
Harnessing The Power Of Public Health Systems For Injury Prevention And Control, Glen P. Mays
Harnessing The Power Of Public Health Systems For Injury Prevention And Control, Glen P. Mays
Glen Mays
Efforts to improve population health hinge on a vast yet diffuse constellation of government agencies, health care providers, and community organizations that assume responsibilities in implementing prevention programs and policies across the U.S. Realizing the full health and economic benefits of injury prevention and control initiatives requires mobilizing and managing these complex and heterogeneous public health delivery systems. This session will explore the emerging science of public health delivery systems and what it tells us about improving injury prevention and control amid policy and economic change.
Public Health Delivery Systems And Population Health, Glen Mays
Public Health Delivery Systems And Population Health, Glen Mays
Glen Mays
Despite high overall health expenditures, the U.S. continues to fall behind other high-income countries on many measures of population health. While health care delivery systems are now studied intensively for solutions to U.S. cost and quality problems, the nation's delivery systems for public health programs and policies are only now becoming the subject of rigorous empirical study. This presentation examines recent studies of public health delivery systems and important directions for future inquiry.
Estimating Return On Investment In Public Health: Approaches And Methods, Glen P. Mays
Estimating Return On Investment In Public Health: Approaches And Methods, Glen P. Mays
Glen Mays
Continuing fiscal constraints in the public sector and large-scale policy changes associated with health reform implementation in the U.S. are giving heightened attention to questions about the health and economic value of public health programs, services, and policies -- strategies designed to protect health and prevent disease and injury on a population-wide basis. This session provides an overview of approaches for conducting return-on-investment (ROI) analyses and related economic evaluation studies in public health settings in order to inform policy and administrative decision-making. New opportunities and resources created through CDC's National Public Health Improvement Initiative (NPHII) and RWJF's Public Health Practice-based …