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The Home Visiting Referral Quality Improvement Initiative (Thrive) Change Package, Elizabeth Yakes Jimenez, Theresa Cruz, Rebecca Craig, Ivan De La Rosa

Population Health Research and Scholarship

Early childhood home visiting programs improve maternal and child health outcomes but remain underutilized. Healthcare providers are well-positioned to connect families to home visiting services; however, structural barriers in clinical settings limit consistent and effective referral practices. The Home Visiting Referral Quality Improvement Initiative (THRIVE) change package was developed to provide a starting point for addressing these challenges. The THRIVE change package outlines actionable improvement strategies to test, such as standardizing referral workflows, training clinical teams, and establishing relationships and feedback loops with home visiting programs. It offers a scalable approach to strengthening clinical–community linkages and improving family engagement with …

2024 Health Equity Impact Report, Children's Health, Stormee Williams

Publications

The Health Equity Impact Report from Children’s Health outlines the organization’s strategy and progress in advancing equitable pediatric care. The report highlights efforts to identify and address social determinants of health—such as food insecurity, housing instability, and access to transportation—through systemwide screening and targeted interventions.

Rural Hospital Closure And Medicaid Expansion, Jason White

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

Introduction: In the United States, hospitals in rural areas have been under financial pressure and have been closing at an increasing rate.  This reduces access to care for rural citizens.  The Affordable Care Act of 2010 was passed in order to increase access to medical care, partially through an optional expansion of Medicaid coverage to a larger percentage of the population.  As some states adopted the expansion and some states did not, an opportunity was created to examine the policy’s effect on rural hospital stability.

Purpose of the Study:  This study was designed to examine the effect of …

Distribution Of Healthcare Resources In Peninsular Malaysia : An Examination Of Equity With Respect To Geography And Allocative Processes, Saw Chien Gan

Student Works (2020-2029)

On a country’s pathway to Universal Health Coverage, it is important to ensure equitable healthcare provision and financing. There was a lack of evidence in equity of healthcare provision and financing across geographic areas in Peninsular Malaysia. This was despite the evidence that geographic factors directly and indirectly affect population health and healthcare services are mostly delivered at immobile healthcare facilities. In Malaysia’s mixed public-private healthcare system, Ministry of Health Malaysia (MOH) has a geographically comprehensive provision network and the MOH resources are distributed through geographic-bound MOH administrative structures. The private sector, which concentrated on more affluent geographic areas, also …

Online Medical Advice System (Tele-Kesihatan), Vedamanikkam Santha Mary

Student Works (2000-2009)

'TELE-KESIHATAN' (Tele-Kes) is computer information system. The aim or objective of this system is to provide greater access to higher health quality to the users, by harnessing current and emerging multimedia and information technologies. The system provides in formation on diseases , health tips, and treatments. These information will be more customized and personalized. The user can post any comments or any question that is related to this system. This system also has an online doctor, where the user can interact with the doctor through mail. Besides that the system also will provide location of nearest medical center so that …