Ensuring Oral Health During Pregnancy: The Science and the Stories
Hyewon Lee, 2017 AcademyHealth Delivery Systems Science Fellow, discusses the importance of oral health during pregnancy and early childhood.
New Study Finds Immigrants Pay More in Private Insurance Premiums Than They Receive In Benefits
In the first study to look at immigrants’ role in financing private health insurance, findings contradict assertions that people born in the US are systematically subsidizing the medical care of immigrants.
Step by Step toward Medical and Addiction Care Integration
In a recent review of care integration models, AcademyHealth member John O’Brien and colleagues found similarities on issues related to culture change, data sharing, and payment models.
Be a Storytelling Superhero Because Evidence Matters
Catherine Hersey and Shellery Ebron, both of AcademyHealth organizational affiliate RTI, describe key takeaways from last June’s Annual Research Meeting with a focus on the importance of using stories to make research findings relatable to diverse audiences across a variety of settings.
Opening Up Access to Research Findings
In celebration of international Open Access Week, editor of eGEMs’ section Better Decisions Together Jessica S. Ancker highlights progress in breaking down paywalls to make sure that research is available to everyone.
New Data Provides Updated Snapshot of Health Services & Policy Research Workforce
AcademyHealth President and CEO Lisa Simpson highlights October’s special issue of “HSR: Health Services Research,” an official journal of AcademyHealth, which focuses on the scope and characteristics of the health services research workforce.
Diverse Disciplines Needed to Overcome Persistent Oral Health Challenges
AcademyHealth is a partner organization of Clinical Scholars, a leadership development program for practitioners from diverse fields of health care. The program features two teams working innovatively to tackle oral health challenges in Georgia and Minnesota.
More than 1 Million Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders Have Gained Coverage Under the Affordable Care Act
Results from a recent study provide important evidence of population-level changes in coverage disparities under the ACA. Granular, disaggregated estimates like these can facilitate efforts to address health disparities for specific subgroups.
What role does community health play in employee performance at American manufacturing companies?
Recent study findings, highlighted this week on the Health Affairs blog, suggest that poor community health negatively affects workers’ performance.
AcademyHealth and HIMSS Join Forces to Leverage Health and Health Care Data to Support Changes in Policy and Practice
New collaboration will power a year-round suite of activities and outreach focused on advances in digital health applications, data resources, and evidence to improve health and health care