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Aligning Clinical & Public Health Systems: Networks, Incentives & Information
Webinar

Aligning Clinical and Public Health Systems for Population Health: Networks, Governance, and Incentives

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This presentation offers insight on strategies that align delivery and financing systems for medical care, public health, and social services in ways that create better population health outcomes.

Dr. Glen Mays discusses questions of interest, implementation of effective population health improvement strategies, and overcoming collective action problems in implementation.

Conclusions and implications include:

  • Large health gains accrue to comprehensive systems
  • Health gains are larger for low-income populations and low-income communities
  • Dense collaborative networks do more than just plan: prioritize, invest, evaluate, repeat (crowd-sourcing)
  • Equity and opportunity: two-thirds of communities currently lack comprehensive systems
  • Affordable Care Act incentives and resources (e.g., hospital community benefit, value-based health care payments, insurer and employer incentives, and public health agency accreditation) may help
  • Sustainability and resiliency are not automatic
Webinar

Aligning in Crisis: Strategies and Tools to Leverage Federal Funding

On 9/14, experts from Aligning in Crisis, with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, will discussed how, if deployed strategically and effectively, federal funds can advance equity, shift power to the community, and set the stage for positive, long-term change.

Brief

Intermediary Organizations Are Urgently Needed to Assist in Modernizing Public Health and Addressing the Drivers of Health in the United States

This issue brief describes the different roles intermediaries can play; provides examples of where they have been used in practice; and identifies the risks, benefits, and possible innovations of intermediaries as well as policy approaches that might facilitate their appropriate use.

Publication

“More Than Just Giving Them a Piece of Paper”: Interviews with Primary Care on Social Needs Referrals to Community-Based Organizations

This publication characterizes referrals to community-based organizations by primary care practices, which are increasingly being used by healthcare organizations to invest in social care.