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Public Health Delivery Systems And Population Health: What We Know And Need To Learn, Glen P. Mays Feb 2013

Public Health Delivery Systems And Population Health: What We Know And Need To Learn, Glen P. Mays

Health Management and Policy Presentations

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.


Public Health Expenditures, Public Health Delivery Systems, And Population Health, Glen P. Mays Jan 2013

Public Health Expenditures, Public Health Delivery Systems, And Population Health, Glen P. Mays

Health Management and Policy Presentations

This seminar examines a series of approaches for estimating the health and economic effects attributable to public health expenditures in the U.S., along with a novel method for estimating economies of scale and scope in the delivery of public health services. The use of instrumental-variables techniques and network analytic methods are described in these research approaches.