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Timely Postpartum Visits for Low-Income Women: A Health System and Medicaid Payer Partnership
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Aligning U.S. Spending Priorities Using the Health Impact Pyramid Lens

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This article examines the need to integrate and align public health, social services, and medical care in the United States through the lens of Thomas Frieden’s “health impact pyramid.”

The “health impact pyramid” presents a hierarchy in which the wide base of the pyramid of socioeconomic factors at a population level has more impact on the health of the public than do individually focused interventions at the pyramid’s top. From this pyramid perspective, the United States’ spending priorities are misaligned, as expenses targeted at public health and socioeconomic factors are far outstripped by spending on individual health care services at the top of the pyramid.

These findings are part of a collection of 15 new studies released on July 14, 2020 in a special issue of the American Journal of Public Health, all focused on the topic of aligning health and social systems to improve population health.

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Networks of Support Help Patients Navigate Complex Systems

This publication examines how a health system in Minnesota empowers patients by giving them resources to address their health-related social needs.

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Financing Coordinated Medical and Social Services for Patients with Psychosis

This webinar presents a decision support tool designed to help health plans and service providers estimate the total costs of care and implement integrated payment strategies for health and social services needed by patients newly diagnosed with psychosis.

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A Foundation For Health And Well-Being: Meaningful Employment

This publication explores how Employment and Community First Choices, a program for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, created and paid for by TennCare, Tennessee's Medicaid program, helps participants work and live independently.